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This letter explores a single research question: How does political uncertainty, outside of the election cycle, influence financial market uncertainty? Using the UK (‘Brexit') referendum on EU membership as a novel event to examine this question, I identify a positive and well defined...
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The use of GARCH models with stable Paretian innovations in financial modeling has been recently suggested in the literature. This class of processes is attractive because it allows for conditional skewness and leptokurtosis of financial returns without ruling out normality. This contribution...
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This paper examines the effects of the Federal Reserve’s Term Auction Facility (TAF) on the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR). The particular question investigated is whether the announcements and operations of the TAF are associated with downward shifts of the LIBOR; such an association...
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The globalization of markets and companies has increased the demand for internationally comparable high quality accounting information resulting from a common set of accounting rules. Despite remarkable efforts of international harmonization for more than 25 years, accounting regulation is still...
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The October, 2016 money-fund reform obliged institutional prime funds to start floating their Net Asset Values (NAVs … management. We find that institutional funds reduced their interest-rate, liquidity and credit risk around the reform … back to where it was well before the reform by the end of 2017. Prime funds adjusted to their shrinkage largely through …
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We identify the degree to which changes in gilt repo market functioning have been driven by changes in the supply of — and the demand for — market intermediation. To do so, we use a structural vector auto regression (SVAR) model with sign and zero restrictions. We find that changes in gilt...
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We argue that non-professional shareholders are not generally harmed by open market or negotiated purchases during or shortly after the termination of a tender offer. With widespread availability of fair price amendments, share control statutes, poison pill amendments, and fair value appraisals,...
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We examine the role of the vaccine initiation rate in mitigating the international stock market volatility during COVID-19. Our findings reflect that the positive effect of the vaccine initiation rate assists in stabilizing the international stock markets. This possible effect is stronger for...
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This article outlines the development of English company law in the four centuries before 1900. The main focus is on the evolution of the corporate form and the five key legal characteristics of the corporation - separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable joint stock, delegated...
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