Since the historical capital regulation by China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) in 2004, Chinese banks have reported remarkable capital growth in their statements. This study examines the impacts of heavily issued and cross-held subordinate debt (SD) towards inflated capital adequacy...

We investigate whether adding fundamental indices to a portfolio provides increased diversification benefits. Our results show that equity investors who care only about portfolio mean and variance will benefit from including a fundamental index in their portfolios. This benefit is especially...

Using a panel data set containing information on FDI flows from home to host countries, this paper examines the impact of changes in the quality of government regulatory effectiveness and governance practices upon the direction of outward FDI flows between five ASEAN economies of Indonesia,...

This paper investigates a hidden consequence of the share pledge business. We find that, relative to the recommendations issued by independent analysts, affiliated analysts under brokerage pressure to protect share pledge business exhibit an optimistic bias in their recommendations. Our results...

This paper investigates the determinants of consumption for one of the fastest growing financial products in Asia. We find evidence that increased provision of civil rights and political stability leads to an increase in life insurance provision. However, by utilizing various estimation...

As the globalization of world financial markets continues unabated the issue of benefits arising from international diversification becomes increasingly important. Due to the fixed geographical nature of the underlying product, securitized property might be considered immune from the effects of...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship that exists between the US real estate and Samp;P 500 stock markets between the years of 1972 to 1998. This is achieved by conducting both linear and nonlinear casuality tests. The results from these tests provide a number of interesting observations...

We show the value of adding cashflow spreads to value spreads to forecast long/short factor returns. These spreads, namely the profitability and investment spreads, have significant forecasting power for a number of factors. Including cashflow spreads also increases the predictive power of the...

We document a housing wealth effect on the stock liquidity of local firms. We first demonstrate that the heterogeneity of homeownership rates across geographical areas can explain variations in the impact that changes in house prices have on local stock liquidity. We then show, consistent with...

We examine if differences in short selling volumes and the information impounded by short sells can contribute to explaining pricing differences which exist between the A- and H-share markets in China. In particular, we argue and also find that informed short selling around earnings...