<title>Abstract</title> This paper examines the critical determinants of American depository receipt (ADR) returns before and after domestic stock seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) for Asian and Latin American emerging economies during 1990--2007, which has never been probed in related issues. We employ the...

This study applies the bootstrap panel Granger causality test to test whether insurance activity promotes economic growth, using data from 10 OECD countries over the period of 1979-2006. Empirical results indicate that one-way Granger causality running from all insurance activities to economic...

This paper investigates the non-linear link between economic development and activities of the life insurance market. We ask whether the relevance of institutional environments on the development of the life insurance market is different across countries. Applying a novel threshold model with...

This paper applies the distinct copula model specifications with time-invariant and time-varying dependence structures to investigate whether American depository receipts (ADRs) co-move more with the industry indexes of home country or the U.S. The evidence shows that ADR returns are more...

Using panel data of 39 countries over the period 1979–2007, this paper is the first to empirically examine the influence of the KOF index of globalisation (overall and its three main sub-indices) on the development and convergence of international life insurance markets by a panel...

Different from prior studies which concentrate on the unidirectional impact of industry leading, this study examines the bi-directional dynamical causal relation between industry returns and stock market returns by considering multiple structural breaks for ten major eastern and southern Asia...

Using bank accounting data for 22 countries in Asia over the period 1995–2009, this article applies the dynamic panel generalized method of moments technique to investigate the impacts of non-interest income on profitability and risk for 967 individual banks. We find that non-interest...