The growing share of financial assets that are held and managed by large institutional investors whose desired trades move asset prices is at odds with the traditional competitive assumption that investors are small and take prices as given. This paper relaxes the traditional price-taking...

We investigate the impact of the announcements of 16 key macroeconomic variables on the Japanese foreign exchange, debt and stock markets. Despite the importance of the Japanese economy in the world stage, there hasn't been a thorough study of role of scheduled information releases in Japan. We...

Of the events signalling the end of the TMT bubble, scandals of corporate governance in the US and Europe captured the public imagination. In play were the greed and hubris of senior executives prompting further debate over countries' standards of corporate governance. If Enron and WorldCom were...

This paper uses one-minute returns on the TOPIX and Samp;P500 to examine the efficiency of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. Our major finding is that Tokyo completes reactions to New York within six minutes, but New York reacts within fourteen minutes. Dividing the sample period into...

We investigate whether domestic investors have an edge over foreign investors in trading domestic stocks. Using Korean data, we show that foreign money managers pay more than domestic money managers when they buy and receive less when they sell for medium and large trades. The sample average...

This paper investigates the nature of information leadership of the U.S. and Japan in the advanced Asia-Pacific stock markets. Instead of just relying on return and return volatility spillovers from major markets, specific and disaggregated news events are also utilized. In particular, the aim...

Using symmetric data sets of 92 weekly return observations before and after the introduction of the euro, the paper analyzes the impact of the new currency on the return structure of equity markets in the European Monetary Union. Variance decompositions, cluster analyses, and principle component...

We examine the impact of 51 terrorist attacks, three wars, an assassination, and other national security-related shocks on stock markets located in nations proximate to the crises and on American Depository Receipts (ADRs) of firms headquartered in those same nations. ADRs are securities that...