This paper develops an agency model to analyze the optimality of executive stock option compensation in the presence of information manipulation. The analyses show that although information manipulation is positively related to the size of option compensation, the relative size of...

This paper examines whether the proliferation of new index products, such as commodity-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs), amplified the volatility transmission channel introduced by financialization. This paper focuses on the volatility spillover effects among crude oil, metals, agriculture,...

We analyze the link between monetary policy and the growth of shadow banks, and by extension, financial stability in Canada. Using monthly financial market data from 1991-2015 in a two-stage time-varying coefficient Bayesian vector autoregression approach, we find that greater shares of shadow...