We want to know whether and in what sense traders on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX) are influenced by what happens on Wall Street. According to the results, the SWX reacts strongly when U.S. macroeconomic news relevant to Wall Street is disclosed. Moreover, SWX traders seem to wait with...

The model of Technical Analysis goes against the fulfillment of the weak form of the Hypothesis of Efficient Market raised by Fama (1970). Nevertheless, recently some studies provide evidence with probable prediction of the expected returns based on the past returns. In particular, the...

This paper models forex market as an automatic feedback control system that maintains Uncovered Interest Rate Parity (UIRP) as the no-arbitrage equilibrium condition. The process of adjustment in the face of exogenously introduced interest rate news is specified by simple intuitive dynamics of...

This paper examines equilibrium price relationships and price discovery between credit defaul swap (CDS), bond, and equity markets for emerging market sovereign issuers. Findings suggest that CDS and bond spreads converge despite various pressures that arise in the market. In most countries,...

This study shows that the information content of FX transactions depends on the identity of market participants. Using spot FX transactions of a major Australian bank, we find that central banks have the greatest price impact, followed by non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) such as hedge...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world financial markets and institutions have new features, and working in different environments and conditions. The new features have been materialized and emerged in the last two decades. These are of increasing the role of the financial...

I analyze the firm-specific determinants of the U.S. share of trading volume for 126 U.S.-listed Canadian firms. I find that the U.S. share of volume is directly related to the mass of informed and liquidity traders in the U.S. relative to Canada, as proxied by relative analyst following,...

This paper examines equilibrium price relationships and price discovery between credit default swap (CDS), bond, and equity markets for emerging market sovereign issuers. Findings suggest that CDS and bond spreads converge despite various pressures that arise in the market. In most countries,...

This paper aims to explore causes and interpretations of stock market crises and high price volatility existing in practices, as well as in state of arts, in order to articulate and classify such interpretations, in various models. The study found that the causes and comprehensive of stock...

This study examines the market's reaction to foreign divestitures and explains why reactions vary across firms. A significant positive reaction is observed, which is similar in magniture to that observed for a matched control sample of domestic divestitures. The size of the reaction is...