One of the main characteristics of modern economical development is the continuously growing amount of information. This paper analyses some of the key notions such as information capital and information economy and its influence on economic development. Also, the present paper analyses some of...

This paper explores the sources of counterparty risk in material supply relationships. Using long-term supply contracts collected from SEC filings, we test whether three sources of counterparty risk—financial exposure, product quality risk, and redeployability risk—are priced in the equity...

It is a robust finding that technical trading rules applied to foreign exchange markets have earned substantial excess returns over long periods of time. However, the approach to risk adjustment has typically been rather cursory, and has tended to focus on the CAPM. We examine the returns to a...

Author's abstract. We investigate the economic consequences of increasing financial report visibility, measured by the use of english as a reporting language for firms from non-English-speaking countries. We sample 113 firms that started publishing their annual report in English (in addition to...

The theory of rational bubbles is, no doubt, a part of the important literature developed within the frame of neoclassical postulates of perfectly rational and informed market participants, and it aims to explain the divergences of asset prices from their fundamental value. According to this...

This paper shows connections between chief executive officers׳ (CEOs׳) absences from headquarters and corporate news disclosures. I identify CEO absences by merging records of corporate jet flights and CEOs׳ property ownership near leisure destinations. CEOs travel to their vacation homes...