The recent economic downturn of 2007-2008 has brought renewed focus on working capital policies. In this paper we examine the role of business cycles on the working capital-profitability relationship using a sample of Finnish listed companies over an 18 year period. We find the impact of...

This paper examines the association between firm valuation and the sources of debt financing. In particular, using a sample of 353 firms, we test whether the decision to issue bonds affects the firm's stock market performance in the emerging Russian markets. Our results indicate that public debt...

This study examines international equity market integration regarding uncertainty. For that purpose implied volatilities calculated from the market prices of stock index options from the U.S., U.K., German and Finnish markets are analyzed. The results suggest a high degree of integration among...

This paper examines the cross-dynamics of volatility term structures implied by foreign exchange options. The data used in the empirical analysis consist of daily observations of implied volatilities for OTC options on the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Swiss franc, and Canadian dollar,...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the gradual information dissemination in the stock market. Brokerage analysts' earnings forecast revisions are used as information source. There are early informed, (later) informed and uninformed investors, depending on their relationship with the...

This paper investigates the bias and over- or under-reaction to previous years earnings using data from years between 1988 and 2005. The purpose is to study the effect of analysts' recommendations on these issues. In most of the previous literature it has been found that there is a positive bias...

This paper examines the co-movement dynamics of ten emerging and four frontier government bond markets with the US market and driving forces behind the time-varying co-movement. Using the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) bivariate GARCH framework, we first analyze dynamic correlation...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the succeeding Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) were widely viewed as trade agreements aiming at containing the influence of China and raising that of the US and Japan in Asia. This study utilizes the outward...

Our study provides new evidence on asymmetric dependencies in international government bond markets, by examining bonds from developed, emerging, and frontier countries, using a quantile regression methodology. We find that the dependence structure for emerging and frontier markets significantly...