We analyze the reaction of stock returns and CDS spreads of banks from Europe and the United States to four major regulatory reforms in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, employing an event study analysis. In contrast to the public perception that nothing has happened, we find that financial...

Key Features:One of the few books on East Asian Economies written in EnglishCovers a wide range of topics like capital market, foreign exchange market, real estate market, banking including recent ones like sub-prime crisis, Lehman shock, etc.