Studies in Economics and Finance: Volume 33 Issue 4

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On the non-neutrality of the financing policy and the capital regulation of banking firms

Rainer Masera, Giancarlo Mazzoni

The paper aims to investigate whether the value of banks is affected by their financing policies. Higher capital requirements have been invoked by exploiting a renewed edition of…

A new theory of innovation and growth: the role of banking intermediation and corruption

João Tovar Jalles

There has been an increased interest in the role of the financial sector and institutional quality in the development process.

SME lending decisions – the case of UK and German banks: An international comparison

Tony Stevenson, Keith Pond

The purpose of this paper is to test and extend a conceptual model of risk assessment in bank lending to SMEs using five German and five UK bank case studies. Derived from…

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Classifying Chinese bull and bear markets: indices and individual stocks

Wei Chi, Robert Brooks, Emawtee Bissoondoyal-Bheenick, Xueli Tang

This paper aims to investigate Chinese bull and bear markets. The Chinese stock market has experienced a long period of bear cycle from early 2000 until 2006, and then it…

The “Backus-Smith” puzzle, non-tradable output, and international business cycles

Soojae Moon

This paper aims to examine the effects of adding non-tradable sector and trade in intermediate goods sector and their impact on the “Backus-Smith” (BS) puzzle and the features of…

Market liberalizations and efficiency in Latin America

Sheung Chi Chow, Yongchang Hui, João Paulo Vieito, ZhenZhen Zhu

This paper aims to examine the impact of stock market liberalization on efficiency of the stock markets in Latin America.

Exploring exchange rate based policy coordination in SADC

Mulatu Fekadu Zerihun, Martinus C. Breitenbach, Francis Kemegue

This paper explores the possibilities for policy coordination in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as well as real effective exchange rate (REER) stability as a…

Comparison of methods for estimating the uncertainty of value at risk

Santiago Gamba-Santamaria, Oscar Fernando Jaulin-Mendez, Luis Fernando Melo-Velandia, Carlos Andrés Quicazán-Moreno

Value at risk (VaR) is a market risk measure widely used by risk managers and market regulatory authorities, and various methods are proposed in the literature for its estimation…

Spillovers between output and stock prices: a wavelet approach

David G. McMillan, Aviral Kumar Tiwari

This paper seeks to examine the nature of spillovers between output and stock prices using both a long annual time series spanning 200 years and a shorter but quarterly observed…

Growth options, dividend payout ratios and stock returns

George Li

This paper aims to examine the impact of the dividend payout ratio on future stock returns and momentum strategies.

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Market participation in a two-sector Diamond-Dybvig economy

Ettore Panetti

This paper aims to reconsider the role of asset-market participation in Diamond-Dybvig economies, to reconcile the existence of asset markets as a channel for financial…

The effects of securitized asset portfolio specialization on bank holding company’s return, and risk

Kenneth A. Tah, Oscar Martinez

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of specialization of the securitized assets portfolio on banks’ performance and securitization risk. In doing so, the paper…

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Risk tolerance and rationality in the case of retirement savings

Tchai Tavor, Sharon Garyn-Tal

This research aims to examine the decision-making process involved in saving for retirement and compare it with decision-making processes regarding other financial products (such…

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Why is insider trading law ineffective? Three antitrust suggestions

Viktoria Dalko, Michael H. Wang

The purpose of this paper is to uncover the essence of insider trading, explain why insider trading law is ineffective and provide implications of the effectiveness of the law.

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A review of angel investing research: analysis of data and returns in the US and abroad

Michael B. McDonald, Ramon P. DeGennaro

The purpose of this paper is to examine the literature on angel investors. Research on angel investors is sparse because data are sparse. Most comprehensive studies of angel…

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Arbitrage opportunities, efficiency, and the role of risk preferences in the Hong Kong property market

Chun-Kei Tsang, Wing-Keung Wong, Ira Horowitz

This paper aims to investigate how a prospective buyer’s optimal home-size purchase can be determined by means of a stochastic-dominance (SD) analysis of the historical data of…

Cover of Studies in Economics and Finance

ISSN:

1086-7376

e-ISSN:

1755-6791

ISSN-L:

1086-7376

Online date, start – end:

1977

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Niklas Wagner