The empirical literature provides the effect agency conflicts on capital structure choices. Yet previous researchers fail to recognize the impact of corporate governance quality on the adjustment speed of capital structure. Especially, this paper considers two different views (the defense effect...

Both Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) offer future contracts based on the Taiwan stock market indices. Due to the structural differences between these two markets, the trading costs and speed of information transmissions are likely to be different. Since TAIFEX...

This study investigates the impact of decimalization (penny pricing) on the arbitrage relationship between index exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and E-mini index futures. Our empirical results reveal that subsequent to penny pricing, there is a significant fall in the mean ex-ante arbitrage profit,...

We examine the impact of decimalization on the relative changes in trading costs, informed trading, and speed of information transmissions between Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and their corresponding index futures. The quotes of ETFs are decimalized on January 29, 2001, while those of index...

On May 1, 2000, the Taiwan government reduced the tax levied on futures transactions on the Taiwan Futures Exchange from 5 to 2.5 basis points. This event provides us with a unique opportunity to test empirically the impact of a tax rate reduction on trading volume, bid-ask spreads, and price...

This article illustrates the impact of both spot and option liquidity levels on option prices. Using implied volatility to measure the option price structure, our empirical results reveal that even after controlling for the systematic risk of Duan and Wei (2009), a clear link remains between...

We examine the effect of quantitative easing on the supply of bank loans and the issuance of corporate debts. During quantitative easing, lending banks demand significantly lower loan spreads, offer longer loan maturities, provide larger loans, and loosen covenants on firms whose long-term bond...

This study shows that investor sentiment plays an important role in affecting the pricing dynamics between the spot and futures markets. The empirical evidence suggests that investor sentiment has a positive impact on price volatility and the bid-ask spread on both the spot and futures markets,...

This paper studies the impact of investor sentiment on the probability of firms conducting seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) and on stock performance around and subsequent to SEOs. We first show that investor sentiment is positively related to SEO probability, and that small, high volatility,...

We investigate whether CEOs' experiences of macroeconomic boom affect risk taking. We use the unique setting of economic conditions changed from Central Planning to Market Economy in China, which is an exogenous shock to early-life experience, as a natural experiment to test the impact on CEOs'...