Over the past four decades, China's real estate industry has experienced rapid growth, accompanied by frequent regulatory interventions. These shifts present an ideal context for examining the characteristics of private equity placements (PEPs) under varying industrial policy environments. This...

This paper investigates the behavior of stock prices around ex-dividend dates in Europe over the period 2018-2022. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a significant fraction of firms cut, suspended, or reduced their dividend payments, leading to a shortage. Using a...

We study the impact of climate-related news on asset prices in eight Latin American countries. We use both newspapers and official announcements to construct daily, country-specific indices via textual analysis, reflecting media coverage of transition risks, climate opportunities, regulatory...

This paper considers data from China's A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2006 to 2021 to investigate how private placements affect asset mispricing. The findings from the empirical study demonstrate that private placements by listed companies substantially impact the level...

This paper investigates the responsiveness of US equity sectors to the sentiments conveyed by the speeches of the governors of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed). Using principal component analysis of the scores of four Lexicon dictionaries to analyze speeches from June 1, 1996, to September 30,...

This paper examines the responses of foreign exchange rates to the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) and forward guidance (FWG) from 2009 to 2022 using local projections. I confirm heterogeneous responses of examined foreign exchange rates to unconventional shocks, varying by...

We perform a quantitative synthesis of 807 estimates of the effect of macroeconomic news announcements on exchange rates, as reported in 25 studies. Estimates are tested for publication selection using visual examination of funnel plots, linear asymmetry tests, and recent non-linear testing...

This study investigates whether and how managers respond to major negative news by increasing the information content of their MD&A disclosures. We predict that major negative news influences managers' disclosure decisions by increasing legitimacy pressures and reducing opportunities to obscure...

This paper explores the impact of bank transparency on market efficiency by comparing banks that disclose supervisory capital requirements to those that remain opaque. Due to the informational content of supervisory capital requirements for the market this opacity might hinder market efficiency....

This study investigates the relationship between news delivered via the QUICK terminal and stock market behavior. Specifically, through an evaluation of the performance of investment strategies that utilize news index created based on its scores indicating positive or negative sentiment, we...

Between 2017 and 2024, the main national stock market indices rose in the US and the five largest European economies. However, the average daily performance of all six indices turns from positive to negative when weighted by daily media coverage. A case in point is the average daily performance...

Investors' return expectations are pivotal in stock markets, but the reasoning behind these expectations remains a black box for economists. This paper sheds light on economic agents' mental models - their subjective understanding - of the stock market, drawing on surveys with the US general...