Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether a convergent behavior exists in the price indexes of the seven Asian Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) markets. Design/methodology/approach – The authors investigate the convergent behavior in Asian REIT indexes against Japan and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Andersen implosion over Enron impacted Fortune 500 firms that were competitors of Enron and/or audited by Andersen. This event provides an opportunity to study various contagion effects. Design/methodology/approach – An event study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of bankruptcy announcements on the bankrupt firm's competitors' stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – Starting with a sample of Chapter 11 bankruptcies from 1980 through 2008, the authors use event study methodology to...

Abstract This article examines the effects of compensation system in the dispute resolution of securities false statement. Firstly, this paper develops an evolutionary game model to analyze the evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) of the dispute resolution. Then, we analyze the factor which...

Abstract Against the background of the global financial crisis, we review recent literature on the debate about “too big to fail”. This is (still) one of the key issues in banking literature since it determines the conditions for adequate banking regulation, financial stability and economic...

Abstract We study the impact of central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) transactions on counterparty exposures in a market with OTC transactions across several asset classes with heterogeneous characteristics. The impact of introducing a central counterparty (CCP) on expected interdealer...

Abstract We study a preferred equity infusion government program set to mitigate interbank contagion. Financial institutions are prone to insolvency risk channeled through the network of interbank debt and to funding liquidity risk. The government seeks to maximize, under budget constraints,...

Abstract We consider convex risk measures in a spatial setting, where the outcome of a financial position depends on the states at different nodes of a network. In analogy to the theory of Gibbs measures in Statistical Mechanics, we discuss the local specification of a global risk measure...

Abstract Financial institutions’ interconnectedness is a key component of systemic risk. However there is still no consensus on its measurement. Using a unique database of network of exposures of French financial institutions, we compare three strategies to measure interconnectedness:...

Abstract We develop a novel stress-test framework to monitor systemic risk in financial systems. The modular structure of the framework allows to accommodate for a variety of shock scenarios, methods to estimate interbank exposures and mechanisms of distress propagation. The main features are as...