The study conducts an empirical test on dollar-denominated sovereign credit spreads in emerging markets, including Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, and Turkey to examine their relationship with each country's exchange rate and the United States (US) Treasury...

The large presence of global banks in Hong Kong offers a well suited empirical setting to study the capital management of foreign bank subsidiaries from a host country perspective. Specifically, this paper uses the trade-off theory of leverage to investigate whether the leverage dynamics of...

The international transmission of shocks in the global financial system has always been an important issue for policy makers. Different types of foreign shocks have different effects and policy implications. In this paper, we examine the effects of the recent U.S. financial crisis and the...

This paper develops a corporate bond pricing model following the structural approach in which the dynamics of the instantaneous risk-free interest rate are governed by a double square-root (DSR) process. Credit spreads generated from this pricing model depend explicitly upon the levels of...

On August 11 2015, China revamped its procedure of setting the official central parity of the renminbi (RMB) against the US dollar. Our empirical investigation shows that the intertemporal dynamics of China's central parity are not the same before and after this policy change. They are more...

This paper develops a corporate bond pricing model following the structural approach in which the dynamics of the instantaneous risk-free interest rate are governed by a double square-root (DSR) process. Credit spreads generated from this pricing model depend explicitly upon the levels of...