For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003–2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks' stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics explain...

Libor is arguably the world's most important number with more than USD 350 trillion of loans and financial contracts referencing this rate. Libor benchmark interest rates are being replaced with alternative reference rates (ARRs). There is no guarantee Libor rates will continue to be quoted...

This study investigates equity liquidity variation with a funding constraint across 38 countries and examines whether the effectiveness of a country’s legal institutions is systematically related to cross-country differences in fragile equity liquidity. Our results show that firms from...

This article focuses on some of the operational aspects of winding down a bank’s trading book portfolio and discusses the hidden exit costs that can sometimes exist. The article provides a deep dive on valuation principles and exit strategies currently considered by industry practitioners when...

We exploit the merger between BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors to study how changes in expected ownership concentration affect the investment behavior of funds and the cross-section of stocks worldwide. We find that funds with open-end structures and a large exposure to commonly-held...

On September 3-4, 2009, SUERF and Utrecht University School of Economics jointly organized the 28th SUERF Colloquium on "The Quest for Stability" in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The papers contained in this SUERF Study jointly published with DNB and Rabobank are based on contributions to this...

We measure the return connectedness in US policy uncertainty, equity and commodity market between January 1990 to December 2015, with a specific focus on the net spillover transmission from one assets class to another asset class. Applying Diebold and Yilmaz (2012, 2014), we perform both static...

The study analyses the interaction between the trading behaviour of 1,024 moving average and momentum models and the fluctuations of the yen-dollar exchange rate. I show first that these models would have exploited exchange rate trends quite profitably between 1976 and 2007. I then show that the...

This paper hypothesizes that the number of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases significantly influence the stock returns in international financial markets. Our empirical evidence, based on panel Granger non-causality tests, strongly supports this hypothesis for Group of Seven (G7)...