SPACs or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies are shell companies, created to raise capital and used by private firms to access capital markets. Using a global sample of SPAC firms, this study assesses their performance and finds evidence of significant positive abnormal returns for SPAC firms...

This study examines Indian firms that go public overseas through American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) and investigates the performance of ADRs and GDRs as a means of raising finance overseas for such firms. Our sample is composed of 124 firm year observation...

Despite the increasing attention on the role of internationalization in firms' capital structure decisions, and the increasing adoption of zero leverage policies by multinationals, no study attempts to explain the effect of multi-nationality on the zero leverage decision. We explore the...

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In this paper, we analyze the response of European and worldwide stock markets and a representative sample of commodities to this event and compare it against the recent Covid-19 pandemic and the not-too-distant 2008 global financial crisis. We...