ETF sponsors promote ETFs as having superior liquidity than their constituents because of ETFs' liquidity in the open market and the underlying stocks' liquidity through the creation/redemption mechanism. We find a liquidity connection between the ETF and its underlying assets suggesting the...

Active ETFs are less liquid than their underlying portfolios. This finding, which contrasts with that for passive ETFs, is attributed to uncertainty of future holdings of active ETFs. In addition, while diversification generally reduces firm-specific information asymmetry and improves portfolio...

A substantial amount is incurred in ETF transaction costs each year. This paper examines the performance of a vector autoregressive (VAR) model and other naïve models to time trades in 1,350 ETFs over the 2011 to 2017 period. We find varied spread savings for large and retail ETF traders by...

This study investigates the volatility connectedness between the Irish and Great Britain electricity markets and how it is driven by changes in energy policy, institutional structures and political ideologies. We assess various aspects of this volatility connectedness including static...

Credit rating industry business model has traditionally been based on an ‘issuer-pays' principle. Issuer-paid credit rating agencies (CRAs) have recently faced criticism regarding untimely releases of negative ratings adjustments, which is attributed to conflict of interest of their business...

We assess the stock market volatility spillover between three closely related countries, United States, China and Australia. This study considers industry data and hence provides a clear idea of the channels through which volatility is transmitted across these countries. We find that there is...

This paper comprehensively discusses the dynamic relationship between commodities and commodity currencies, particularly during the U.S. quantitative easing (QEs), by integrating the generalized spillover index into a fractionally integrated VAR (FIVAR) model. Our empirical analyses reach the...

This paper examines the effect of order imbalance on realized volatility in the Australian stock market for the period between August 2007 and May 2016. To analyse this asymmetric relationship, we decompose order imbalance into buyer- and seller-initiated trades and capture good and bad...