The widespread failures in the financial sector during the Global Financial Crisis prompted many governments worldwide to re-intervene in a market that had become increasingly state-free over the years. The re-intervention, however, has re-ignited a global debate on the role of the state in...

This paper examines abnormal stock returns around the publication of 1,167 reports issued by 26 brokerage firms on 37 small caps admitted to listing on the Italian stock market from 2003 to 2011. The focus is on small caps going public because, for such firms, information asymmetries may be...

There are few things more constant in life than the rise and fall of financial markets. When markets crash, however, we are forced to restore them while learning from our mistakes. In the wake of the recent subprime mortgage crisis, Congress has drastically but deservedly overhauled the...

VaR_Delta-Normal fails in two counts: subadditivity and potentially producing losses larger than its portfolio value. This paper solves the second inconsistency developing formulas derived from a put option, named PVaR_Delta-Normal and Put_Expected_Shortfall, PSF_Delta-Normal; the latter also...

FINRA registered representatives – commission securities salespeople – have come to be known as financial “advisors,” but are not required to generally put customers' interests ahead of their own compensation and other interests, as are agents of fiduciary Registered Investment Advisors....

Spain´s sovereign crisis has many sides and causes. An unviable economic model and an insolvent financial sector generated a private sector crisis that rapidly spread to the Government´s balance sheet. The public sector itself had –and continues to have- its own serious dysfunctions. One of...

The European Commission's Proposal for a Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers (ECSPs) for businesses, since its presentation, has faced difficult trilateral negotiations among the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. The length of...

Little is known about fraud in the financial services sector. Using a rich supervisory dataset, this study dissects fraud at large U.S. banking organizations. We examine the different categories of fraud and their materiality, the recovery from fraud, the time from fraud occurrence to fraud...