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This paper dissects with great acuteness, the issues of convergence in financial performance dynamics in the African … (Christianity and Islam). Findings provide partial support for the existence of absolute convergence in some dynamics. Only sub …-Saharan Africa reveals conditional convergence in relation to per capita number of listed companies. The speed of convergence for the …
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Did the United States government distort efficient returns of the housing finance sector in response to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic? This paper employs a Fama-French five-factor capital asset pricing model event study hybrid approach to investigate if the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,...
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We empirically analyze asset price boom-bust cycles over a long-run period of 1896-2014 for the U.S., the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. We focus on macro-financial linkages to understand if these are common phenomena during financial crises, or if the linkage was simply amplified during the...
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Moving into and out of a financial and banking crisis is likely to be associated with spillover effects from the banking sector to the corporate sector. We investigate whether and how government interventions in the U.S. banking sector influence the stock market performance of corporate...
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This paper examines the effects of monetary policy announcements, made by the Reserve Bank of Australia, on the stock price volatility of Australian commercial banks. The results suggest that the announcements of the new target cash rate increase the volatility of Australian banking stocks. In...
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The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-09 confirmed the vital importance of advancing our understanding of macrofinancial linkages, the two-way interactions between the real economy and the financial sector. The crisis was a bitter reminder of how sharp fluctuations in asset prices, credit and...
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In this paper, we establish a causal link between fluctuations in the stock market and credit risks from the P2P lending market, by exploring information of more than 450 thousand loans on Renrendai.com, a leading Chinese P2P crowd lending platform. Based on the fact that retail investors...
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We revisit the role of time in measuring the price impact of trades using a new empirical method that combines spread decomposition and dynamic duration modeling. Previous studies which have addressed the issue in a vector-autoregressive framework conclude that times when markets are most active...
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The authors re-examine the return-volatility relationship and its dynamics under a new vector autoregression (VAR) identification framework. By analyzing two model-free impliedvolatility indices - the well-established VIX (in the United States) and the recently published VKOSPI (in Korea) - and...
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