There is recent interest in the public listing of crypto-currency-based exchange-traded funds. However, the legal and regulatory framework for these funds has not yet been established. In this article, we argue that the legal and regulatory framework for the leveraged commodity funds can serve...

This study documents a significant and positive impact of country-level sustainability scores on cross-border bank-to-nonbank flows. This result is robust after mitigating endogeneity concerns by applying instrumental variable regression, generalized method of moments estimation, Fama-MacBeth...

This study presents the first large-scale, comprehensive evidence on the insider trading patterns and abnormal returns in the Turkish stock market. Starting with a summary of the legislation, an event study methodology is used to compute daily abnormal returns of almost 65,000 insider...

We investigate the valuation effects of debt issues on the issuing firms’ common stock using a sample of Turkish issuers. For the sample of non-financial firms, we find no significant wealth effects for debt issues around the announcement dates. However, market reactions are more positive when...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the association between country-level sustainability scores and cross-border bank-to-non-bank flows within countries. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze cross-border banking flows into the real sector firms of 26 developed countries from 2006...

Using a database of 605,106 option grant filings by insiders between 1992 and 2002, we find significant abnormal stock return reversals around the grant date. Consistent with the hypothesis that managers influence their pay, the reversals are positively related to grant size and the seniority of...

This article investigates the order imbalance and price behavior of trades and quotes around isolated informed trades intraday. Different patterns of order flows around informed trades are documented because of the originating stock exchange, the type of informed trader, the size of the order,...

In this paper, we investigate whether the recent increase in enforcement action against insider trading by the SEC and the Department of Justice correspond to increased illegal insider trading activity. We examine the pricing of common stocks and options around the announcement of tender offers...

We document value and momentum across thirteen well-known stock market anomalies. We find anomalies that have performed well in the past month continue to outperform those that have performed poorly by about 60bp per month. These results hold for both relative momentum and absolute momentum...