This study examines the impact of financial flexibility on the investment and performance of East Asian firms over the period 1994–2009. We employ a sample of 1,068 firms and place particular emphasis on the periods of the Asian crisis (1997–1998) and the recent credit crisis (2007–2009)....

As the Basel III reforms, which come into effect from 2012, place emphasis on default risk, assessing the impact of Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) on default risk is of practical relevance. We provide strong evidence that both the dynamic and the contemporaneous impact of the PCA-defined tier 1...

We report empirical evidence suggesting a strong and positive risk-return relation for the daily S&P 100 market index if the implied volatility index is included as an exogenous variable in the conditional variance equation. This result holds for alternative GARCH specifications and conditional...