This paper examines the relative efficiency of the U.S. and Stockholm Stock Exchanges. Numerous stocks are cross-listed on United States Exchanges and the Stockholm Stock Exchange. We compare the prices of these firms at near-simultaneous trading times. This study is an extension of an earlier...

In this paper we examine the relative efficiency of the U.S. and Swedish Stock Exchanges. Numerous stocks are cross-listed on United States Exchanges and the Swedish Stock Exchange. We compare the prices of these firms at near-simultaneous trading times. We find evidence of a lack of efficiency...

The process of changing reserve requirements in Costa Rica is a three step process. First the central bank makes the decision to change reserve requirements. Several days to several weeks later, the change is announced in the official newspaper. The actual reserve requirement change takes place...

The process of changing reserve requirements in Costa Rica is a three step process. First the central bank makes the decision to change reserve requirements. Several days to several weeks later, the change is announced in the official newspaper. The actual reserve requirement change takes place...

This paper examines how changes in the minimum payment percentage and effective maturity of introductory offers affect credit card arbitrage. Credit Card arbitrage involves taking a cash advance on, or making purchases against, a credit card that offers a low or zero percent introductory...

The discussion in many money and banking textbooks would suggest that the Federal Reserve requires depository institutions to hold a minimum level of non-interest-earning reserves because (1) reserve requirements are a monetary policy tool that allows the Fed to expand the money supply and lower...

Financial economists view reserve requirements as being important to financial markets. But, they have not always agreed on how reserve requirements impact financial markets. Conventional thinking would suggest that higher reserve requirements will result in lower rates paid on deposits, either...

In this paper we rank states based on higher education faculty compensation. Data on 574 universities across each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia are aggregated to develop a state compensation average. The analysis examines states both on a raw basis and on a cost of living...

In this exploratory research, and driven by intense interest in media focused attention on the apparently wide differential in pay contrast between US top managers in large corporations versus their non-US top managers, we examined the backgrounds of the highest paid Chief Executive Officers...

A recent research stream develops currency adjusted stock indices. The analysis in previous papers is limited to daily closing data. This paper extends the existing body of literature by examining tick data. We examine tick data from 2002 through 2013 for eight indices. In general, results show...