Banks provide credit to large firms either to finance large firms’ investment projects with positive net present values or to lend out SMEs indirectly through the expansion of trade credit by large firms which have Access to bank credit. The aim of the current article is twofold: to provide...

Bank firms try to improve their efficiency by offering credit to large firms which extent trade credit to those firms that are blocked from bank credit or faces high possibilities to not pay back their loans. This self-discipline helps banks to become more prudent when they lend risky firms such...

We examine the impact of economic news releases on returns, volatility and jumps of the stock and foreign exchange markets of South Africa. We also assess the impact of macroeconomic determinants. The dataset range is fifteen years covering the period from January, 2000 to December, 2014....

The present research investigates the impact of trading volume on stock return volatility using data from the Greek banking system. For our analysis, the empirical study uses daily measures of volatility constructed from intraday data for the period 5 January 2001-30 December 2020. This period...

We studied (i) the volatility feedback effect, defined as the relationship between contemporaneous returns and the market-based volatility, and (ii) the leverage effect, defined as the relationship between lagged returns and the current market-based volatility. For our analysis, we used daily...

We study the financial determinants of cash holdings and discuss the importance of firm size in the post-crisis period. We employ panel data regression analysis on a sample of 6629 non-financial and non-utility listed companies in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2018. We focus on the comparative...