We investigate the role of financial ratios in Japan's construction firms in explaining the propagation of financial shocks during the 2007 to 14 financial crisis. For our analysis, we applied the new approach of contagion test developed by Fry-McKibbin et al (2016) to test for contagion effect...

An empirical examination of the effect of the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis on the US tourism industry using equity price returns and firm performance ratios for 30 US tourism firms is undertaken in three parts. The joint test of financial market contagion proposed by Fry-McKibbin, Hsiao and...

Central bank governor changes in emerging markets may convey important signals about future monetary policy. Based on a new daily data set, this paper examines the reactions of foreign exchange markets, domestic stock market indices and sovereign bond spreads to central bank governor changes....

We study the relation between the centralization of regulated financial information, information asymmetry, and capital market liquidity. Specifically, we exploit the staggered implementation of digital storage and access facilities (called Officially Appointed Mechanisms, or OAMs) for regulated...

Since the adhesion to European Union, the influence of the international financial markets on the Romanian capital market intensified. In this paper we investigate the impact of the shocks from New York Stock Exchange on the Bucharest Stock Exchange evolution. We found that a significant...

This paper explores the impact of the large stock prices increases (positive shocks) and decreases (negative shocks) from the New York Stock Exchange on the returns and volatility of some European developed capital markets. We found that more than a half of shocks from these European stock...

The COVID-19 pandemic led many emerging market central banks to adopt, for the first time, unconventional policies in the form of asset purchase programs. In this study, we analyze the effects of these announcements on domestic financial markets using both event studies and local projections...

This article explains the impacts of Dubai Crisis (DC) on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the wider Gulf region and at international level. It also extensively examines the differences and similarities between Dubai Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This examination includes studying...

The 2008 global financial crisis highlights the importance of securitization and crash risk. Yet there is a dearth of papers exploring the link between securitization and crash risk. We analyze 7,096 securitization deals made by large European listed banks between 2000 and 2017. Our paper...