This study compares the information content of funds from operation (FFO) and net income (NI) in the real estate investment trust (REIT) industry. We find that models using FFO explain more of the variance in cumulative abnormal returns around earnings announcement dates than models using NI do....

This study examines time-series momentum in the Chinese commodity futures market. The findings show that a time-series momentum strategy performs best with a one-month look-back period and a one-month holding period. Furthermore, this strategy outperforms passive long and cross-sectional...

To valuate mortgage-backed securities, it is crucial to understand mortgage termination behavior. Analyzing the unique loan-level dataset, this study examines the characteristics of mortgage prepayment and default behavior in the Korean housing and housing finance markets. We find that loans to...

This study investigates credit card loan delinquency in Korea. We define three states - no delinquency, delinquency, and serious delinquency - and test the transition probabilities between them using quarterly observed account-level data. Our findings have several economic implications. First,...

We develop a market model to illustrate synchronized market runs by informed and rational hedge funds. A hedge fund's capital structure is fragile because uninformed fund investors are highly loss sensitive and easily withdraw capital in response to bad news. Hedge fund managers, sharing common...

We analyze the efficiency of the liquidity flows provided to recover stability in a distressed market. Using a theoretical framework, our analysis focuses on the incentives of financial institutions, namely, the incentive for arbitrage profits, the disincentive from liquidity risk, and market...

This study investigates the economic and financial drivers of volatility changes and integrates them into stock market volatility forecasting. We first collect a diverse set of predictor variables and analyze them within a unified framework. We discover that only a small number of variables...

We study whether tax considerations are an important determinant of commercial mortgage default. We also study whether large lenders are better informed, or better at interpreting information for lending purposes, and hence have lower foreclosure rates; whether lenders have more information on...