In this paper we show that inflation differentials among the countries in the European Monetary Union (EMU) are an economically significant risk to German firms, which make up the largest economy in the EMU. This risk can be interpreted as real “exchange rate exposure” resulting from trade...

This paper studies the impact of political risk on exchange rates. We focus on the Brexit Referendum as it provides a natural experiment where both exchange rate expectations and a time-varying political risk factor can be measured directly. We build a simple portfolio model which predicts that...

This paper examines the impact of the introduction of the Euro currency on the market efficiency of ten of the most developed European stock markets during the period 1988-2012. We use an autocorrelation test, a runs test, various formulations of the variance ratio test and the nonlinear BDS...

This study explores the impact of terrorist attacks on the European and US stocks markets after the upsurge of attacks that started in November 2015 in Paris. Applying the methodology developed in Eldor and Melnick (2004), we find that these terrorist attacks had a significant impact in the US...

With the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive in effect since November 2007, new trading venues have emerged in European equities trading, among them Chi-X. This paper analyzes the impact of this new market entrant on the home market as well as on consolidated liquidity of French blue chip...

In this study, we analyze the effect of US macroeconomic announcements on European stock returns, return volatility and bid-ask spreads using intraday data. We find that certain announcements are generally more important to the European stock market than others, and that the direction of news is...

Recent growth in retail trading in global equity markets has drawn considerable attention to the execution of retail flows. European market operators offer diverse retail trading mechanisms: both retail-specific mechanisms and all-to-all trading mechanisms that allow the interaction of all...

The shift of perspective from a national basis to a Euro area basis, inevitably induced by EMU, has led member countries to a parallel shift from equity home bias to equity Euro bias. We interpret this evidence by means of a standard mean-variance portfolio selection model modified in order to...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between sovereign CDSs and Bonds, and Equity markets for 13 European countries during the period 2008-2010. We confirm the leading role incorporating new information of Equity markets during 2008-2009, but we find large evidence supporting that...