A tool that has been widely used to identify the state of financial conditions in a country are the financial conditions indexes, since they synthesize information from different variables in a single indicator allowing to identify the general behavior of financial conditions in a timely and...

A number of recent theoretical studies have explored trading in fragmented markets, e.g. Biais etal. (2000), a phenomenon increasingly witnessed in modern markets. The key assumptiongenerating the results is that there is at least one liquidity demander exploiting access to allmarkets by...

Building upon a data set of publicly traded firms in Thailand, we find that the exposure of firms to exchange rate volatility appears to change during the period of capital account restrictions (in the form of the un-remunerated reserve requirement on capital inflows) between 2006-07. We also...

Besides the positively biased rating structure and procyclical nature of analysts' stock recommendations we observe that within the global universe stock recommendations and stock performance are largely uncorrelated. Nevertheless, investors are able to benefit from sell side stock...

As a banking system health indicator and risk premium, the Libor-OIS spread has attracted great interest during recent years. Despite the recent Libor fixing scandal, our study based on five major currencies can still shed insights on the true determinants of the Libor-OIS spreads under...

While the paper touches upon the experience of most transition economies in Eastern and Central Europe, it focuses on the creation and functioning of capital market development in four countries in the region, namely, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. Capital market in these four...

This paper examines the impact of MIB30 Index Futures on the volatility of the Italian Stock Exchange. The results suggest that the onset of futures trading may have led to diminished daily volatility. They also suggest that the nature of the volatility itself has not changed between the...

In this paper we investigate whether the imposition of the unremunerated reserve requirement on capital inflows influences exchange rate volatility and stock prices. Our analysis shows that exchange rate volatility of the Thai baht against four major currencies — the US dollar, the British...

Purpose: We analyze the quality of accounting information reported by public firms in Latin-America and United States of America.Methodology/approach: To reach our objective, an exploratory and descriptive research was developed. To analyze the dimensions of accounting information quality, the...

The relationship between the announcement of the imposition of capital control and stock returns is examined across a sample of 32 technology firms listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), where capital control has been used as a means to prevent the appreciation of a currency (Thai...