We study the asset pricing implications arising from imperfect investor protection using a new governance measure. This is defined as the product of institutional quality in a country and the proportion of free float shares, which captures the impact of controlling block holders. Using monthly...

We investigate the impact of local and global macroeconomic factors on Eurobonds and local currency issued bonds in Sub-Saharan Africa, at different points on the yield curve. Using a unique proprietary data set collected from local authorities, central banks and independent international...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the effects of different trading systems, the open outcry and the electronic systems, which differ in the speed of dissemination of order flow information, on the relation between trading activity and conditional volatility, on the probability distribution...