This paper investigates how deposit insurance and capital adequacy affect bank risk for five developed and nine emerging markets over the period of 1992–2015. Although full coverage of deposit insurance induces moral hazard by banks, deposit insurance is still an effective tool, especially...

The “adverse selection” hypothesis expects that the introduction of index futures trading will decrease the liquidity of index component stocks as liquidity-motivated traders migrate to futures trading. Conversely, the “index arbitrage” hypothesis predicts that index arbitrage activity...

The long-term and sustainable development focuses of green bond together with its increasing popularity urges to get better understandings on its hedging effects against market risks. Our study investigates whether and how green bond can act as a hedging instrument against the implied...

The “adverse selection” hypothesis expects that the introduction of index futures trading will decrease the liquidity of index component stocks as liquidity-motivated traders migrate to futures trading. Conversely, the “index arbitrage” hypothesis predicts that index arbitrage activity...