The recent sub-prime debacle has brought ‘innovative’ structured credit products such as collateralized debt obligations under severe criticism. The complexity of some structured finance securities and difficulties in understanding their risks has been a common theme. This paper argues that...

This paper explores differences in how primary care doctors process the clinical presentation of depression by African American and African-Caribbean patients compared with white patients in the US and the UK. The aim is to gain a better understanding of possible pathways by which racial...

The authors examine the strategies rural households in Burkina Faso used to cope with the costs of illness in order to avert negative effects for household production and assets. They use information from 51 qualitative interviews, a household time allocation study and a household survey. Both...

This study fills an important gap in the literature on loss realization aversion. It shows how a ‘sophisticated’ sub-set of investors, namely short-sellers, react to losses. Using daily data on stock lending, we estimate the average price at which short positions were initiated, thus...

This study uses stock lending data from Data Explorers to assess the impact of short-selling constraints on the profitability of eight investment strategies. Returns from unconstrained long--short portfolios are compared with those from ‘feasible’ portfolios, constrained to short-selling...

This study investigates performance of portfolios composed of British Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) stocks. Using the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World list (known also as: Global-100) to select the SRI companies, we found that, in the period 2000-2010, the returns...

Kosowski, Timmermann, Wermers, and White (2006) find that certain growth-oriented fund managers have substantial skill but do not stipulate the particular skills that they possess. We examine in detail the style-timing abilities of 3,181 US growth-oriented equity mutual funds over the period...

There has been considerable growth in the derivatives holdings of Taiwanese insurance companies in recent years and this study examines the determinants of derivative use for both life and non-life companies. The determinants are different in the two insurance sectors. For the life sector, we...