We investigate the post-listing experience of companies raising capital on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The AIM is unique in that it is privately regulated and relies on Nominated Advisors (Nomads) who compete to bring new listings and provide ongoing...

Using a sample of non-U.S. firms from 43 countries, we investigate whether laws and regulations as well as votes cast by U.S. institutional investors are consistent with an effective shareholder voting process. We find that laws and regulations allow for meaningful votes to be cast as...

This paper examines whether there is information sharing between mutual funds and their auditors about the auditors' other listed firm clients. Using data from the Chinese market, we find that mutual funds earn higher profits from trading in firms that share the same auditors. The effects are...

Using a sample of firms from 40 countries cross-listed in the U.S. during the 1982–2018 period, we find that the discrepancy between a firm's home industry valuation and its corresponding U.S. industry valuation—the relative industry valuation—is an important factor in the listing decision...

We study competitive effects of foreign listings on U.S. stock exchanges over a 50-year period and show that U.S. rival firms respond strongly negatively (weakly positively) to foreign listings (delistings). The performance decline of U.S. firms is related to the competitive advantages that...

Over the last decade, stress testing has become a central aspect of the Fund's bilateral and multilateral surveillance work. Recently, more emphasis has also been placed on the role of insurance for financial stability analysis. This paper reviews the current state of system-wide solvency stress...

Derivatives are the major icon among risk management practices. Firms usually use derivatives to hedge their foreign exchange and interest rate risk. This study aims to examine the determinants' of corporate hedging policies and derivative usage in risk management particularly with respect to...

We analyze a firm's decision to conduct initial public offerings (IPOs) internationally. Global IPOs (issuing both domestically and abroad) raise significantly more capital in the international markets than any other form of IPO. Though over eight percent of firms conducting an IPO between 1995...

This study attempts to extend knowledge of the role of financial market development in the financing choice of firms in developing countries using cross-sectional regression estimator with a dynamic-panel approach for 219 firms listed on the three emerging countries during the period 1990-2012....

In this paper, we document that US cross-listed firms experience negative return spillovers in the three-day event window centered on the filing of US class action lawsuits launched against their country peers. This spillover effect is both economically large (-0.139%) and statistically...