Research Question/Issue: Using the data of the 20 largest financial institutions from G8 countries, we explore whether the performance is higher for financial institutions with more independent directors on different committees during the 2007–08 financial crisis. We also examine the...

Using financial ETFs from various financial industries, we set out in this study to explore the relationship between funding liquidity and equity liquidity. We measure funding liquidity from the interbank as well as the collateral markets and examine how funding liquidity affects bid-ask spread,...

Risk contagion between carry trade portfolios and stock markets had been explored in literatures, leaving inconsistent controversy. Instead of exploring ordinary return-volatility spillovers, this paper focuses on a systemic contagion, the tail risk conditional on extreme events in other...