We examine the effects of the North Korea-U.S. summit and related events on the South Korean stock market over the period March 2018 to June 2018. Employing the event study methodology, we estimate sectoral abnormal returns following the events surrounding the summit and conduct several...

We assess the effect of the recent royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on various sectors of the UK stock market over the period between November 2017 and May 2018. For this purpose, the event study methodology is used to estimate abnormal returns and conduct several robustness tests...

A well-established view that exists is that firms in a developed financial market take advantage of market valuations when making financial decisions. Whether firms in developing financial markets follow a similar behavior is not clear. Therefore, this research extends the prior literature by...

This paper investigates whether good firm environmental performance attracted government support. Furthermore, we explore the effect of different government measures such as access to new credit, cash transfers, fiscal exemptions or reductions, and wage subsidies. The COVID-19 data were...

This study investigates the impact of the Environmental (E), Social (S), and Governance (G) scores on abnormal returns (AR) and cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) of energy companies issuing green and conventional bonds in China and Japan. The bond and returns related data for each company was...

This paper investigates whether government support were in favor of environmentally performed firms. We explore the effect of different government measures such as access to new credit, cash transfers for business, fiscal exemptions or reductions, and wage subsidies. Our results show - from...