In this paper we note that unrelated research in the management and finance fields, if combined, makes predictions concerning board reforms in emerging countries. Specifically, outside directors' demographic characteristics that are salient to foreign investors should reduce stock price...

In this paper, we investigate both the market reaction soon after the accident and the market reaction when the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund Act was passed and signed into law. TEPCO, the damaged electric power company's stock price lost the largest consecutively for direct damage...

This paper aims to identify the effect of monetary policy shocks on stock prices through the lens of Mundell and Fleming's “Impossible Trinity” theory. Our identification strategy seeks to solve the simultaneity and omitted variable problems inherent in studies that focus on the effect of...

We examine the spillover effects of the Global Analyst Research Settlement (or Global Settlement) on analysts' earnings forecasts in 40 developed and emerging markets. Prior to the Global Settlement, analysts generally made overly optimistic forecasts, this bias tending to be higher in countries...

We examine intra-market return comovement within each of 33 economies' stock exchanges from 1995 through 2013 using a model-free comovement gauge. We find that the stability of international macroeconomic trilemma policies, the number of crises, and the extent of turnover overshadow the...

We assess the impact of the corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP), the corporate arm of the ECB's quantitative easing, over its first year of activity (June 2016 - June 2017). Focusing on the primary bond market, we find evidence of a significant impact of the CSPP on yield spreads, both...

This study examines the relationship between dividend yield and stock returns for firms in the United Arab Emirates, where there are no taxes on dividend incomes and capital gains. Following methods of Black and Scholes (1974) and Litzenberger and Ramaswamy (1979), we find that yield...

We examine intra-market return comovement within each of 33 economies' stock exchanges from 1995 through 2013 using a model-free comovement gauge. We find that the stability of international macroeconomic trilemma policies, the number of crises, and the extent of turnover overshadow the...

We investigate the link between the rule of law and equity returns in post-transitional economies over the period January 2010-December 2020 by using panel data regressions. By applying several rule- of-law proxies for national legal frameworks and justice system quality as proxies for the...

The Chinese version of NASDAQ, ChiNext has gone through three time periods with two different regulation regimes (approval and registration) and three sets of listing day trading restrictions (trading curbs, hard return caps, and no restrictions). We hypothesize that the initial return contains...