This article analyzes intraday stock price and trading volume reactions to directors' dealings announcements in Germany and the United Kingdom from January 2007 to June 2010. The main findings show that prompt public disclosure of directors' dealings, as mandated by the EU Transparency...

This paper examines whether star-analysts have better forecasting abilities than non-star-analysts. Our results reveal that star-analysts' earnings forecasts outperform their peers' forecasts. Because the level of corporate governance plays an important role for the general level of forecast...

Using confidential daily data, we analyse how the intervention episode of the Bank of Israel (BOI) from 2013 to 2019 has affected the foreign value of the Israeli new shekel (ILS) and the expectations about its future value. We find that interventions amounting to US dollar (USD) 1 billion are...

The international transmission of intraday price volatility among the United States, United Kingdom, and Japanese stock index futures markets in the period 1988-1994 is investigated in this paper. The empirical results based on extreme-value estimators and vector autoregression indicate the...