We use data from 33 countries to study how a fund’s affiliation with large families shapes the flow–performance relationship internationally. Our results show that the effect of family size on the fund flows’ response to performance depends on the sophistication of investors in a country. While less sophisticated investors are persuaded by the great visibility and strategies of funds that are affiliated

This study identifies the determinants of domestic equity funds that fail to comply with the portfolio concentration limits of the EU Directive 2009/65/EC. This study also determines the characteristics of the stocks subject to these non-compliant portfolios. The empirical application to a comprehensive sample of domestic equity funds registered in the Eurozone provides significant information that

Using a large sample of 1017 multinational parents with 13,758 affiliates and 3588 local firms in 26 countries, we examine the impact of currency crises on multinational firms and local firms between 2006 and 2014. We find that multinational affiliates use their internal capital markets to capitalize on the benefits of large currency depreciations and increase sales and investment significantly more

Results and contributions We contribute with the literature on debt covenants, by analyzing their effect on the speed of capital structure adjustment in an environment of low creditor protection (Brazil). Unlike the previous evidence for developed countries, our results suggest that covenants work as a signaling device and increase the speed of capital structure adjustment by more than 20% for firms

This study uses a TVP-VAR model to test whether gold was a safe haven for exchange rate risks from 1999 to 2018. The five major world currencies are examined: the renminbi, euro, British pound, Japanese yen, and U.S. Dollar. Empirical results show that (1) gold cannot hedge currency depreciation in the long run; (2) gold can hedge currency depreciation dynamic risk in the short run; (3) gold can act

This paper examines the alignment between initial price reaction and post-cross-listing performance for non-American firms cross-listed in the U.S. Using an event study methodology, we show that, while cross-listed firms exhibit long-term performance, short-term valuation gain is more important. We also find a significant difference between short and long-term price reactions, explained by legal investor

This study examines the long-run stock performance of US firms conducting cross-border mergers and acquisitions and explores possible synergy sources by investigating three sets of factors: country differences, merger characteristics, and acquirers' operational variables. The results show that US cross-border acquirers underperform in the long run, a situation that does not significantly change according

This study examines whether clientele effects are important in the evaluation of the performance of U.S. international equity closed-end funds (CEF) using the best clientele (BC) performance measure of Chretien and Kammoun (2017), and alternative stochastic discount factor models based on global factor models. The study finds that clientele effects are important when evaluating the performance of international

Over the last two decades, the unprecedented expansion of cross-border banking on the African banking market has raised concern about their effects on host countries’ markets. This paper investigates to what extent this expansion has affected competition and cost efficiency in the African banking market using a sample of 429 active commercial banks from 2000 to 2015. Results show that CBB activities

The recent wave of liberalization in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has opened up a debate on the role of Islamic finance in the financial development of an economy. Using a comprehensive dataset of 43 Islamic and 49 conventional banks for the period 2007-2015, in this paper, we investigate the impact of trade and financial openness on financial development in the GCC region. We find that

Using country-level data on 47 global markets, this paper examines the stabilizing effects of pension funds vs. mutual funds on country-specific market risk. We find that mutual funds have a significantly negative effect on idiosyncratic volatility in developed markets, but this role becomes insignificant in emerging markets. In contrast, pension funds significantly reduce country-specific market risk

Corporate social responsibility is growing steadfast in emerging countries. Studies analyzing the factors that typically determine CSR practices of firms have often led to conflicting results. In this study, we examine corporate governance determinants that are specifically relevant to CSR in emerging countries. Analyzing a large sample of Vietnamese listed firms, we find that foreign ownership, international

Using a unique Swedish database that records the ultimate stockholdings in public firms, we decompose stock ownership by domiciles using votes rather than cashflows. We then study the impact of variables related to the lifecycle theory of dividends and the catering theory of dividends. We also examine the propensity of firms to pay dividends and/or activate a stock buyback program. Univariate analysis

We study the effects of FX liquidity risk on carry trade returns using a novel low-frequency market-wide liquidity measure. We show conclusively that the vast majority of variation in carry trade returns can be explained by two risk factors (liquidity risk and market risk). Our results are further corroborated when the mimicking liquidity risk factor is replaced with a non-tradable innovations risk

The study empirically examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) to trigger financial deepening (FD) in the Southeast Asian region. More specifically, it investigates the direct and indirect roles of FDI in enhancing the level of FD. The findings of the robust FGLS and PCSE estimators suggest that FDI acts as an essential stimulator to FD in the region – directly as well as indirectly through

A better understanding of financial contagion and systemically important financial markets will help market participants capture market information and assist regulators in preventing financial crises. We propose a ripple network based collective spillover effect approach to model the spread of financial contagion and analyze the systemic importance of financial markets. The crude oil market is taken

This study introduces two novel metrics that calculate the degree of shock asymmetry which can be utilized to examine whether countries in a currency area face symmetric shocks. In an attempt to answer whether the symmetric shock assumption is fulfilled in the European case, the exchange rate transmission mechanism of all 14 countries that have joined the ERM and Sweden is explored. The findings point

This paper provides a long-term perspective to the causal linkages between currency dynamics and macroeconomic conditions by utilising a long span data set for the United Kingdom that extends back to 1856 and a time-varying causality testing methodology that accounts for the nonlinearity and structural breaks. Using unemployment fluctuations as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions and wavelet decompositions

This article analyses the developments in and determinants of the country-specific dependence of sovereign bond returns on global factors for 41 economies over the last decade. The dependence was cyclical and substantial: the average for the sample economies and period was around 56 percent. This is consistent with the global financial cycle hypothesis stressing the dominant role played by global factors

With a comprehensive dataset covering 148 countries over 1995-2015, this study investigates the relationship between competition and efficiency in the banking industry. Evidence shows that bank competition is detrimental to cost efficiency, which is at variance with the intuitive “quiet life” hypothesis. Bank regulatory and institutional environment in which banks operate not only influences bank efficiency

We investigate the effect of major global factors—crude oil, gold, silver, the S&P 500 Index, the United States (US) Dollar Index and Time-varying tail dependence structure and dynamics between international prices of oil, natural gas, cocoa and sectoral stock returns in Australia: perspectives for portfolio diversification. Sep 27, 2020 Nov 22, 2020 Sent Back to Author US Treasuries—and a psychological

Using a multi-country sample of stocks, the sensitivity of investment to stock price informativeness is assessed. Consistent with prior research, we find a positive association between investment and stock prices. This association becomes stronger when prices are more informative. However, while measures of price informativeness related to the amount of (market-based) private information conveyed by

In this study, we document, for a number of emerging markets, that positive returns can be obtained using a short-term reversal strategy. These returns are higher for small and illiquid firms, and highest for more volatile firms. Overall, the reversal strategy-based alphas are significant when accessed through different asset pricing models. Our results provide, however, an important unexplored explanation;

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are frequently renegotiated as their contracts are long-term, often with a duration exceeding 30 years, involve major investments, and are necessary incomplete. Still, while contract incompleteness is difficult to prevent, renegotiation frequency does not decline in spite of decades of experience. Electoral cycles and political connections lead to strategic behaviour

This paper examines the connectedness between cryptocurrencies and major fiat currencies in a multivariate framework using vine copulas. One of the advantages of this method is the flexibility in the choice of distributions used to model complex dependencies. The results show that the dependence, measured conditionally or unconditionally, is positive and higher for the pairs of the same market than

This paper investigates whether superior corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance leads to greater firm-level foreign direct investment (FDI). We argue that the decisions managers take on their CSR can have a positive influence in the external perception of the firm and act as an important intangible asset. Using a sample of 4764 firms from 44 countries spanning 2003–2014, we find evidence

This study aims to examine the effect of corruption, national culture, and rule of law on the dividend repatriation policy of foreign subsidiaries of US multinational corporations (MNCs) in 51 countries. The findings reveal that foreign subsidiaries of US MNCs repatriate lower dividends from host countries that have a higher rate of corruption. Additionally, findings suggest that foreign subsidiaries

This study presents a financial distress (FD) prediction model that utilizes accounting, market-based, and financial reporting quality (FRQ) measures. We use a panel logit framework to analyze data for developed market firms from the UK and emerging market firms from Pakistan during the period 2001-2015. Obscured portions of financial reports, such as that created by management tactics employing income

We examine the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the dynamic conditional correlations between Bitcoin and the US stock markets while accounting for structural changes in Bitcoin prices. The results indicate a negative effect of EPU on the dynamic conditional correlations between Bitcoin and the US stock markets only after the Bitcoin crash of December 2017. Further analysis shows an increase

We evaluate competing hypotheses on profit skimming, asymmetric benchmarking, and the effects of implicit incentives using natural disasters as shocks to firm-specific performance. We find that compensation of both CEOs and other top executives are adjusted for exogenous changes in firm-specific performance. Moreover, the change in pay-for-performance sensitivity is greater for favorably rather than