We examine the effects of regulations designed to address the potential conflict of interest that arises when sell-side analyst research is not independent of investment banking. We focus on two types of regulation: (1) barriers between equity research and investment banking that restrict the...

This is a summary, practitioner-oriented article which summarizes our research on debt and hybrid decoupling. Equity decoupling refers to the unbundling of the rights and obligations normally associated with shares. Debt decoupling refers to the unbundling of the economic and governance rights...

Most U.S. public companies have a single class of voting common shares: voting power is proportional to economic ownership. Linking votes to shares is often thought to be desirable, because, as residual claimants, shareholders have an incentive to exercise voting power well. The linkage also...

This article reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the impact of last-sale trade reporting on the liquidity of BBB corporate bonds. Overall, adding transparency has either a neutral or a positive effect on liquidity. Increased transparency is not associated with greater trading...

This paper presents background work that has been the basis for the development of the market and credit risk indicators (MRI and CRI, respectively) as published in the IMF`s Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) since September 2004. The fundamental idea was to build a set of Financial...

Income trust units are some of the highest selling products in the Canadian securities industry, but they have been less successful beyond Canadian borders. The author discusses the remarkable profitability and proliferation of income trusts in Canada, but maintains that arguments in favour of...

Despite continued attempts by regulators to curtail abusive short sales and increase transparency, the pattern and practice of fraudulent manipulation continues to proliferate and threaten the capitalization of a wide variety of issuers within the securities market. Identifying a meaningful...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 신용평가정보가 주식시장에서 갖는 영향을 검증하기 위하여 국내 유가증권시장과 코스닥시장 상장기업의 신용등급 보유가 해당 기업 주식의 수익률 및 변동성에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 주식분석과...

Korean Abstract: 신용등급은 기업의 미래 현금흐름과 위험을 예측하는 정보를 제공하고 기업의 내재가치를 반영하여 금융거래 시 비대칭정보인 차입기업의 위험유형을 선별하고 통제하는 기능을 수행한다. 본 연구는...