This study investigates the aggregate stock market impact of local currency and foreign currency sovereign rating changes. Consistent with evidence pertaining to company credit rating changes, we report that only rating downgrades have a wealth impact on market returns. Decreases in local...

This article empirically investigates the exposure of country-level conditional stock return volatilities to conditional global stock return volatility. It extends the results found in the quot;volatility spilloverquot; literature by providing evidence that conditional stock market return...

This paper proposes and tests a new hypothesis concerning the price impact of option introductions on the underlying asset. In contrast to earlier research that has failed to explain the flipping of positive excess returns to negative excess returns on the listing date over the past thirty years...

By selecting a globally representative dataset of airline indices, this study demonstrates that oil price or oil price regimes (delineated by the first gulf war and the 9/11 terror attacks) alone do not have any significant implications for airline stock prices. Overall, these findings are...

We investigate the effects of S&P's sovereign re-ratings on the higher moments of equity market returns over recent financial crises. Using a set of intraday stock market index prices and sovereign credit ratings for a sample of 36 countries which experienced sovereign rating changes over the...

Accounting for defined benefit pension plans is complex, and given the magnitude of many of these schemes relative to their corporate sponsor, understanding whether pension disclosures are value relevant is key to improving the quality of financial reports. The application of fair value...

The aim of this paper is to provide an exploratory review of the extent to which some of the world’s leading companies are publicly addressing water stewardship as part of their corporate sustainability strategies. The paper begins with an outline of the growing importance of corporate...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an exploratory review of the sustainability agendas being addressed and publicly reported within the UK pub industry. The paper begins with a short discussion of the characteristics of sustainability and this is followed by a brief thumbnail sketch of pubs...

Sustainable consumption is a core policy objective within the UK Government’s Sustainable Development Strategy and there is a growing awareness that retailers have a vital role to play in promoting more sustainable patterns of consumption. This paper explores how the UK’s top ten food...

Accounting for defined benefit pension plans is complex, and given the magnitude of many of these schemes relative to their corporate sponsor, understanding whether pension disclosures are value relevant is key to improving the quality of financial reports. The application of fair value...