This study investigates how the presence of a female chief risk officers (CROs) affects risk-taking practices in banks. We follow the enterprise risk management (ERM) perspective by considering the environment surrounding the CROs (i.e., female representation in both the risk committee and the...

We extend Leung and Menyah's (2006) study by relating the estimation of the issuer-oriented underpricing costs to the IPO offering methods. We distinguish between the oversubscription rates of institutional and retail investors in the estimation of the issuer-oriented underpricing costs...

We examine the price, volume and bid-ask spread reactions to lock-in expiries in Hong Kong IPOs. We show that the lock-in expiry causes an increase in both trading volume and bid-ask spread, but no significant change in the share price. We attribute the absence of a price reaction to the fact...

This study uses data on 27 European stock indices over the period from January 2007 to December 2012 to investigate the relationship between innovations and the market reaction to negative news during the financial crisis. We use the bivariate BEKK-GARCH approach to estimate time-varying betas...