Using a modified international asset-pricing model we find strong evidence that publicly quoted firms cross-list when exhibit strong performance in their domestic market and wish to take advantage of this situation, after cross-listing this advantage disappears. Our sample consists of daily data...

This paper addresses the impact of developments in the credit risk transfer market on the viability of a group of systemically important financial institutions. We propose a bank default risk model, in the vein of the classic Merton-type, which utilizes a multi-equation framework to model...

This paper contributes to the primarily empirical literature by conducting the first extensive empirical analysis of the impact of the degree of co-movement in the main standardized credit default swap (CDS) indices on the group of systemically relevant large complex financial institutions...

Stochastic volatility models such as those of Heston (1993) and Hull and White (1987) are often used to model volatility risk in the pricing and hedging of contingent claims on risky assets. Some recent empirical evidence has shown that these models under general specifications often do not...

This paper illustrates a semi-parametric approach to static and dynamic asset allocation problems in terms of the moments of a multivariate distribution. By use of a general class of H-distributions, we reconstruct the portfolio density function from the moment sequence derived from the...

We show the equivalence between the zero-beta version of a multi-factor arbitrage pricing model and a linear pricing model utilizing undiversified inefficient benchmarks in a given factor structure. The resulting linear model is a two-beta model, with one beta related to the inefficient...

We examine whether professional forecasters incorporate high-frequency information about credit conditions when revising their economic forecasts. Using Mixed Data Sampling regression approach, we find that daily credit spreads have significant predictive ability for monthly forecast revisions...

We compare two bootstrap methods for assessing mutual fund performance. Kosowski, Timmermann, Wermers and White (2006) produces narrow confidence intervals due to pooling over time, while Fama and French (2010) produces wider confidence intervals because it preserves the cross-correlation of...

This paper addresses the impact of developments in the credit risk transfer market on the viability of a group of systemically important financial institutions. We propose a bank default risk model, in the vein of the classic Merton-type, which utilizes a multi-equation framework to model...

The recent crisis highlighted, once again, the importance of early warning models to assess the soundness of individual banks. In the present study, we use six quantitative techniques originating from various disciplines to classify banks in three groups. The first group includes very strong and...