In this study, we examine non-government-assisted US commercial bank merger activity prior to and during the recent financial crisis. Mergers that occur throughout the crisis appear to be more significant events for both targets and acquirers. Acquirers seek out relatively larger targets during...

Textual analysis is performed in a total of 13145 high frequency (intraday) news: 6536 news from the Dow Jones Newswires and 6609 news from the Thomson Reuters Newswires. Selected news are Euro-periphery (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) crisis-related news which contain a number of...

[Part I] As a few alert mainstream and corporate economists rediscover the certain elements of Marx’s analysis of capitalism, the essays in the first part of this volume demonstrate that they have much more to discover. To their discredit, mainstream understandings – whether of...

Financial market interdependence has been at the epicenter of the crisis in the euro area. This paper tests for the existence of financial contagion during this crisis, defined as the international transmission of country-specific shocks beyond the normal channels of financial interdependence....

Using small business data, we investigate the relationship between bank loan availability and trade credit in Japan during the recent global financial crisis. Previous studies argue that the relationship between trade payables and bank loan availability is negative because trade credit is an...

This study investigates the impact of idiosyncratic volatility on investment behavior of market participants in Taiwan equity market. Empirical results show that herd behavior exists in this equity market, and herding shows distinct patterns under various portfolios according to idiosyncratic...

Using static and dynamic panel estimates in a sample including all 28 European Union countries during the last decade, this paper seeks to improve upon the existing literature with empirical evidence on the important role that well-functioning EU banking institutions can play in promoting...

The article describes the importance and reasons of tax measures taken to fight the crisis. At the beginning it is the comparison of tax policy measures in the context of other measures. Attention is paid to the comparison of fiscal measures in the OECD. Next are presented the basic types of tax...

The submitted article deals with the International Monetary Fund as one of the most important multinational institutions, the priority aim of which was to contribute to the achievement of international monetary stability. Since its inception, the distribution of power and economic power has...

The paper deals with problems related to valuation of equity capital markets using a well known FED model. Although the model has a relatively good explanatory power on historical data starting from 1979 to 2002, the recent development during the last financial crisis which started in 2007 and...