This paper studies the relationship between corporate governance and the systemic risk of financial institutions. Specifically, using a sample of large U.S. financial institutions from 2005 to 2010, we examine whether the strength of corporate governance mechanisms can explain the...

This paper examines whether bank capital ratios and default risk are associated with the gender of the bank's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairperson of the board. Given the documented gender-based differences in conservatism and risk tolerance, we postulate that female CEOs and board...

This article investigates the delta hedging performance of the skewness and kurtosis adjusted Black-Scholes model of Corrado and Su (1996) and Brown and Robinson (2002). The empirical tests in the FTSE 100 index option market show that the more sophisticated skewness and kurtosis adjusted model...

This paper examines the effects of bank corporate governance on real estate lending and loan losses during the recent financial crisis. The results indicate that banks with stronger corporate governance mechanisms had higher profitability during the period 2006-2009. Our findings on the effects...

This paper focuses on the underpricing and the short- and long-run performance of Finnish initial public offerings (IPOs). More specifically, we examine whether there are differences between the performance of value and growth stock IPOs in the Finnish stock market. Our results indicate that...

This paper examines the association between female audit committee representation and audit fees. We hypothesize that gender diversity on audit committees has implications for external auditing, and thus affects audit fees. Using a sample of the Samp;P 500 firms, we find considerable evidence to...

This paper examines the cross-dynamics of volatility term structures implied by foreign exchange options. The data used in the empirical analysis consist of daily observations of implied volatilities for OTC options on the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Swiss franc, and Canadian dollar,...