The admission by the Greek government on October 18, 2009, of large-scale accounting fraud in its national accounts sparked an unprecedented sovereign debt crisis that rapidly spread to the Eurozone’s weakest member states. As the crisis increasingly drove a wedge between a seemingly resilient...

By focusing on the investors, IFRS disclosure is intended to support economic guidance. The scope of this study is, therefore, to highlight key indicators for value relevance of the IFRS framework. Through a pan-European event study, we first consider the problem of confidence in investments and...

This paper examines the performance of Institutions, Foreigners and Individuals in Emerging Markets. We find that Local institutions produce better outcomes than both foreigners and local individuals on all performance measures. Comparing local individuals with foreigners we find that local...

We investigate the role of Foreigners, local Institutions and local individuals in days of Contagion in a set of seven emerging markets from 2007 to 2016. We propose and use a simple measure of the degree of Contagion based on the probability of a coincidence of daily negative returns in both...

We investigate the role of Foreigners, local Institutions and local individuals in days of Contagion in a set of seven emerging markets from 2007 to 2016. We propose and use a simple measure of the degree of Contagion based on the probability of a coincidence of daily negative returns in both...

The present article contains a brief but comprehensive overview of the development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project in the EU to further deepen EU capital markets’ integration. After the Introduction, it first discusses the Commission’s 2015 CMU Action Plan and its follow-up,...

We show that aggregate insider trading (AIT) in the S&P 500 is a reliable predictor of the U.S. equity premium, while AIT outside the S&P 500 seems to be uninformative. Aggregate trading of S&P 500 insiders outperforms a broad set of well-established predictors considering in- and out-of-sample...

This study tests whether disclosing a trader's identity dampens or stimulates subsequent trading volume based on the trader's reputation for being informed. While a reputation for being informed makes markets less liquid, thus inhibiting subsequent trade ("illiquidity effect"), the information...

In the Schumpeterian creative disruption age, the authors firmly believe that an increasing application of electronic technologies in the finances opens a big number of new unlimited opportunities toward a new era of the ultra high frequency electronic trading in the foreign currencies exchange...