The recent financial crisis offered an interesting opportunity to analyze the markets'; behavior in a high-volatility framework. In this paper, we analyzed the price discovery process of the Italian banks' Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads through the Merton model, extended with the inclusion of...

El artículo analiza el papel de la tipología del inversor (individual-institucional) en la dinámica del volumen de los activos negociados en el mercado de valores español. A diferencia de la evidencia obtenida para las empresas americanas, los resultados no muestran que dicha división...

This paper tests the response of bond yield spreads and equity prices to credit rating changes in the Australian financial market. Unlike some earlier studies for foreign markets, we find evidence that both yield spreads and equity prices move in the ‘expected’ direction following rating...

Bu çalışmada Fama-French Üç Faktör Varlık Fiyatlama Modelinin İstanbul Menkul Kıymetler Borsası’nda uygulaması yapılmıştır. Çalışma, Temmuz 1995-Haziran 2005 tarihleri arasındaki 120 aylık dönemi kapsamıştır. Çalışmaya her yıl, İMKB’de işlem gören, menkul...

This study examines a risk/return mismatch of the MSCI China Index, which has offered investors low returns and high volatility, yet remains a favorite within the global investors' portfolio. The paper suggests several insights, both from behavioral and traditional finance perspectives, to...

Insider trading in the credit derivatives market has become a significant concern for regulators and participants. This paper attempts to quantify the problem. Using news reflected in the stock market as a benchmark for public information, we report evidence of significant incremental...

Since the reduced forms of the popular measures of asymmetric information in the price formation process are not nested within larger models we cannot evaluate their fit using standard statistical tools. Furthermore, pairwise correlations amongst the measures are small. We benchmark these...

This study investigates whether investors are willing to trade off wealth for societal benefits. We take advantage of unique institutional features of the municipal securities market to provide insight into this question. Since 2013, over $23 billion green bonds have been issued to fund...

Using a novel database, we show that the stock-price impact of analyst trade ideas is at least as large as the impact of stock recommendation, target price, and earnings forecast changes, and that investors following trade ideas can earn significant abnormal returns. Trade ideas triggered by...

Among growing concerns about potential financial stability risks posed by the asset management industry, herding has been considered as an important risk amplification channel. In this paper, we examine the extent to which institutional investors herd in their trading of U.S. corporate bonds and...