This paper examines the share price reactions of small commercial banks to the announcement of the Basle Accord. Previous studies document that large banks have negative price reactions to the announcement of the accord. Findings here show that small banks have positive share price reactions....

This paper studies the return relationships between listed banks and real estate firms in seven Asian economies before and after the Asian financial crisis. We find that listed banks were exposed to real estate risk both before and after the crisis, but that the exposure increased in the...

This paper examines the intraday information transmission process among the Deutscher Aktienindex (DAX), DAX futures and DAX options in Germany. Using the extreme value volatility approach developed in Booth et al. (1997, Management Science, 43, 1564-1576), the volatilities of the three markets...

Several trends in the insurance and financial services industry, including demutualizationconsolidation, and deregulation, have attracted increasing attention from investors and financial analysts. This paper investigates the accuracy of the earnings forecasts of financial analysts for insurance...