The Australian not-for-profit and charitable sector is an important component in that country’s social capital. It delivers services and supports to some of the most vulnerable people in the community. However, up until recently, poor data sets related to the sector’s financial performance...

We investigate the relationship between the intensity of share pledging activities and the level of financial constraint. Using a sample of Chinese publicly listed firms from 2003 to 2018, our main findings are fourfold. First, we document that the high financial constraint level may motivate...

Private debt fund managers invest in debt positions of private companies through new issuances or secondary acquisition of loans. We examine which strategy performs best using data from over 400 investments into private companies located in 13 Asian countries between 2001 and 2015. Trading...

We investigate the price reaction of listed companies in response to blockchain-related announcements. The average abnormal return based on a global sample of 713 firm announcements is approximately 5% on the announcement day, with significantly higher returns for U.S. firms, smaller firms and...

We investigate the price reaction of international listed companies in response to blockchain-related announcements. The average abnormal return based on a sample of 979 firm-announcements is approximately 5% with significantly higher returns for smaller firms and for announcements in late 2017...

There is a large literature that reports time-specific anomalies in equity markets such as the Monday effect, the January effect and the Halloween effect. This study is the first to report intra-day time-of-day, day-of-week, and month-of-year effects for Bitcoin returns and trading volume. Using...

This paper proposes a method for generating unbiased predictors of downside and tail volatility for individual mutual funds, using theoretical market state prices and applying these to fund payoffs. The method is validated as a predictor of market downside and tail volatility. The Fund...

Estimation of risk-neutral (RN) moments is of great interest to both academics and practitioners. We study 1) the model-free measure of RN moments by Bakshi, Kapadia and Madan (2003); 2) RN moments that are used in the VIX and SKEW index by the Chicago Board Options Exchange; 3) nonparametric RN...

We examine the performance of investments made by private credit fund managers into over 440 private companies in 13 Asian countries from 2001 to 2015. We show that the returns to private debt investments are relatively uniform across size, country and industry despite diversity in legal and...