This paper investigates the relationship between annual report disclosure, market liquidity, and capital cost for firms registered on the Deutsche Börse. Disclosure is comprehensively measured using the innovative Artificial Intelligence Measurement of Disclosure (AIMD). Results show that...

We study equilibrium trading strategies, market liquidity, and price efficiency in an economy in which a fraction of better-informed speculators displays preferences consistent with Kahneman and Tversky’s (1979) Prospect Theory, i.e., loss aversion, risk seeking over losses, and nonlinear and...

En este trabajo se propone un nuevo indicador sintético de liquidez de mercado que resume la información contenida en un conjunto amplio de medidas individuales para los mercados de renta fija de EEUU, tanto soberana como corporativa. En concreto, el indicador propuesto sintetiza diecisiete...

En este trabajo se analiza la liquidez del mercado de deuda pública a diez años en Estados Unidos antes y después de la crisis financiera. Se consideran tanto el nivel como su resistencia, es decir, la forma en que la liquidez reacciona a los shocks financieros. Tras analizar cinco...

This paper develops a reduced form three-factor model which includes a liquidity proxy of market conditions which is then used to provide implicit prices. The model prices are then compared with observed market prices of credit default swaps to determine if swap rates adequately reflect market...

In this paper, we extend the debate concerning Credit Default Swap valuation to include time varying correlation and co-variances. Traditional multi-variate techniques treat the correlations between covariates as constant over time; however, this view is not supported by the data. Secondly, since...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform a comparative study of prediction performances of an artificial neutral network (ANN) model against a linear prediction model like a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) with regards to forecasting corporate credit ratings from financial...

Taiwan had approximately 3,000 buildings damaged by floods with an economic loss of NT$12.8 billion annually, a figure 4.5 times more than economic losses due to fire damages. Many insurers become extremely cautious when underwriting their flood policies for people living in areas that are...

Este trabalho propõe analisar o desempenho financeiro da piscicultura no sistema semi-intensivo, praticado por pequenos produtores da regional do Baixo Acre e avaliar os fatores que atuam como ameaças ao desenvolvimento da cadeia produtiva. A análise financeira foi realizada com o método do...

Although agriculture generates a significant portion of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, it also has the potential to sequester large quantities of emissions through changed land use management such as agroforestry. Whilst there is an extensive amount of agroforestry literature, little...