This study examines whether firms' disclosure decisions are affected by the presence of activist hedge funds. Using a large sample of firms that experienced increases in ownership by activist hedge funds, we find that firms are more likely to cease providing financial guidance or reduce the...

This paper utilizes the daily prices of the market indices in 57 countries across the world from 2nd January 1997 to 30th August 2012 to examine the potential stock market integration structure by applying a network visualization approach (with both MST network and Graph network), we seek to...

We combine recent developments on extracting jumps from high frequency stock index data with the literature on option pricing with time varying volatility to model S&P 500 index returns from 2005. We compare the fit of several GARCH models, with and without jumps, from the historical return...

Since 1998, the world's leading experts on accounting and regulation have convened in a series of workshops to explore emerging issues in their field, and to analyze the social and economic consequences. The workshops have covered a wide array of topics, including international standard setting,...