We examine the response of U.S. (VIX) and German (VDAX) implied volatility indices to the announcement of interest rate policy decisions by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and the European Central Bank (ECB). We present new findings that indicate that VDAX declines on FOMC meeting days,...

This study examines how the US and Chinese markets reacted to the Israel-Hamas conflict using an event study method. The analysis included 2087 firms from China and 1881 firms from the US. The results show differing responses in these markets before and after the conflict was announced. However,...

This paper investigates how heterogeneous sentiments and perspectives expressed in public online media about the abolition of the Chinese presidential term limit in 2018 may have caused a divergence in investor behavior between the U.S. and China. We document that sentiments expressed in social...

This article deals with the latest developments in the regulation of cross-border tender offers in the U.S., in Germany, and in the European Union. In the U.S. the SEC issued a new release concerning Cross-Border Tender and Exchange Offers, Business Combinations and Rights Offerings. The new...

The Eurosystem and the U.S. Federal Reserve System follow quite different approaches to the execution of monetary policy. The former institution adopts a "hands-off" approach that largely delegates to depository institutions the task of stabilizing their own liquidity at high frequency. The...