We examine the price behavior of firms when monetary authority announces measures that can be considered as capital account liberalization. In particular, we investigate the reaction of stock market to the announcement of the relaxation revocation of capital control in Thailand on January 29,...

Building upon a data set of publicly traded firms in Thailand, we find that the exposure of firms to exchange rate volatility appears to change during the period of capital account restrictions (in the form of the un-remunerated reserve requirement on capital inflows) between 2006-07. We also...

We analyze whether variation in systemic risk in the banking system (also known as “bank systemic risk”) can explain corporate investment. We show that in a sample of publicly listed firms in 10 advanced and emerging markets economies during the period 1990–2013, bank systemic risk is...