The number of Irish firms cross-listed on international exchanges remains low, relative to other countries. However, as a proportion of those firms eligible to list, Irish firms are, relative to others, more likely to list abroad. Surprisingly, Doidge, Karolyi, and Stulz (2004) show that in...

In this paper, we explore the link between stress in the domestic financial sector and the capital flight faced by countries in the 2008-9 global crisis. Both the timing of emergence of internal financial stress in developing economies, and the size of the peak-trough declines in the stock price...

This paper studies the impact of sovereign debt rating changes on liquidity for stocks from 40 countries for the period 1990-2009. We find that sovereign rating changes significantly affect stock liquidity. The impact is stronger for downgrades than for upgrades, and is nonlinear in event size....