This study quantifies the presence of financial distress in the cross section of stock returns. Systemic risk is defined as the occurrence of simultaneous tail events for a large fraction of firms. A tail event is interpreted as evidence of downside risk in the tail distribution of financial...

This paper proposes a system of simultaneous equations in a panel data setting to examine the relationship between corporate financial performance (FP) and corporate environmental performance (EP) for the group of firms comprising the S&P 500 in- dex. The study separates between brown (heavily...

This paper proposes a functional coefficient quantile regression model with heterogeneous and time-varying regression coefficients and factor loadings. Estimation of the model coefficients is done in two stages. First, we estimate the unobserved common factors from a linear factor model with...