The investment-cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) of Chinese firms declined during the global financial crisis, which contradicts the conventional financial constraint interpretation of ICFS. We analyze this phenomenon by examining how cash flow uncertainty affects the ways of financing investment. We...

In response to today’s rapidly changing global trade environment, countries have continued to make changes to their policy objectives and instruments to address new and emerging issues such as supply chain restructuring and reshoring, climate change, and currency undervaluation. To this end...

The investment-cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) of Chinese firms declined during the global financial crisis, which contradicts the conventional financial constraint interpretation of ICFS. We analyze this phenomenon by examining how cash flow uncertainty affects the ways of financing investment. We...

Motivated by the stylized fact that intraday returns can provide additional information on the tail behaviour of daily returns, we propose a functional autoregressive value-at-risk approach which can directly incorporate such informational advantage into the daily value-at-risk forecast. Our...

We study the joint credit risk in the UK banking sector using the weekly CDS spreads of global systemically important banks over 2007-2015. We show that the time-varying and asymmetric dependence structure of the CDS spread changes is closely related to the joint default probability that two or...

What drives a firm's investment decisions in China? While most literature focuses on the role of financial factors (such as cash flow), we explore this most important question in corporate finance from the perspective of economic fundamentals. Empirical results show that private firms cherish...

What drives a firm's investment decisions in China? While most literature focuses on the role of financial factors (such as cash flow), we explore this most important question in corporate finance from the perspective of economic fundamentals. Empirical results show that private firms cherish...

In response to today’s rapidly changing global trade environment, countries have continued to make changes to their policy objectives and instruments to address new and emerging issues such as supply chain restructuring and reshoring, climate change, and currency undervaluation. To this end...