This paper compares the stock and credit default swap market reactions to the COVID-10 announcement with the reaction to the Lehman bankruptcy, investigating the effects of both negative news and policy measures announcements by industry. We find that the CDS market reaction is not statistically...

Financial markets are useful indicators of public beliefs and dispersed knowledge on future outcomes and policy efficiency, especially in periods of uncertainty. 51 national stock markets successfully absorb publicly available information regarding COVID-19 and anticipate policy measures being...

This paper examines effects of MiFID II on European stock markets. We study the effects of the new tick size regime, both intraday and in the closing auction. An increase (decrease) in tick size is associated with a decrease (increase) in intraday liquidity, but a more (less) stable market. In...

SME (Small & Medium Enterprises) IPOs formally debuted in India in 2012 when BSE and NSE introduced SME Platform on their exchanges along with Main Board Platform (for non-SMEs). SEBI has eased the listing criteria for SMEs to make it more attractive. The focus of this study is to assess and...

This appendix provides the complete list of sample firms and the robustness checks results discussed in the paper, Industrial Policy and Asset Prices: Stock Market Reactions to Made In China 2025 Policy Announcements, found here:"https://ssrn.com/abstract=3521006" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3521006

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) in China is unique worldwide in requiring disclosure of the timing, participants and selected content of private in-house meetings between firm managers and outside investors. We investigate whether these private meetings benefit hosting-firms and their major...

Appendix available here:"https://ssrn.com/abstract=3525571" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3525571.We study the link between industrial policy and asset prices by using the Made in China 2025 industrial policy, announced in May 2015, as an external shock. We track Chinese firms and U.S. firms in ten...

We resolve Roll's R2 puzzle. Before legislation enacted to prevent such practices, information leakage through selective disclosure could be incorporated into market prices prior to public release of news. I.e., "news days" did not deliver news to the stock market. Now they do. We show changes...

This paper examines stock market reaction to the earnings announcements by taking December 2001 quarter earnings announcement as an event. The study is based on 152 companies having minimum 20 percent foreign holdings. The companies are divided into, good news, bad news and overall portfolios....

In this study, we used event study methodology to examine stock price reactions to quarterly earnings announcement. The study is based on a sample of 146 companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and December 2000 quarterly earnings announcements are taken event. The abnormal performance is...