This paper deals with the impact of the arrival of public information on the intraday trading of highly liquid stocks quoted on the Paris Bourse.

In this paper, we investigate the German stock market with regard to negative stubvalues or parent company puzzles. These are situations where a firms marketvalue is less than the value of its ownership stake in a publicly traded subsidiary.According to MITCHELL/PULVINO/STAFFORD (2002), negative...

This paper analyzes the impact of ongoing financial integration and increase in crossborder activities on banks’ common exposure to shocks and on banking sector systemic risk. For that, we study the evolution of correlations between large international banks’ asset-to-debt ratios over...

In this study, we first estimate the level of financial integration for twenty five emerging stock markets over the last decade. Using a multivariate GARCH(1,1)-M return generating model allowing for partial market integration as well as for the pricing of systematic emerging market risk, we...

The main objective of this paper is to study whether the introduction of the euro hadan impact on the degree of integration of European Government bond markets. Weadopt the CAPM-based model of Bekaert and Harvey (1995) to compare, from thebeginning of Monetary Union until June 2008, the...

This paper deals with the long-run stock performance after initial public offerings (IPOs) in the German capital market with a larger sample than prior studies and alternative benchmarks (the equally and the value-weighted market portfolio, size portfolios and matching stocks).

This paper investigates the relative performance of local and foreign financial analysts on Latin American emerging markets.

This study examines the lead-lag-relationship between European equity and CDSmarkets in the context of the financial crisis. Previous research identified the stock market tolead the CDS market in an ordinary economic environment. Against the background of ourstudy this lead-lag-relationship...

This paper investigates the relative role of price discovery between two long-term swap contracts that exchange U.S. dollars for Japanese yen - the cross-currency basis swap and the foreign exchange (FX) swap - using structural state space models. Our main findings are that: (i) the currency...

In this paper we investigate whether cross-sectional information from local equity marketscontained information on devaluation expectations during the Asian crisis. We concentrate onthe information content of equity prices as these markets were in general the largest and mostliquid at the time...