This article examines how the market quality of European cross-listed stocks is affected by the partial-day availability of close substitutes, i.e., shares of the same companies that are traded in their home markets but are not fully fungible with the cross-listed shares. Our findings suggest...

In 2004, China became the third largest trading economy in the world. Although official overall average import tariff rate was reduced to 9.9% as of January 2005, actual tariff rates are likely much lower. Although further tariff reductions may lead to renewed and expanded global trade growth,...

In this paper we investigate the ruin probability in a general risk model driven by a compound Poisson process. We derive a formula for the ruin probability from which the Albrecher-Hipp tax identity follows as a corollary. Then we study, as an important special case, the classical risk model...

Consider a discrete-time insurance risk model in which the insurer makes both risk-free and risky investments. Assume that the one-period insurance and financial risks form a sequence of independent and identically distributed copies of a random pair (X,Y) with dependent components. When the...

The main purpose of this paper is to identify and measure the potential effect of property tax on speculative bubble in residential property market in China where the issue on the introduction of property tax is still fiercely debated. As a primary and necessary step, we firstly provide an...

We study the asymptotic behavior of the Gerber-Shiu expected discounted penalty function in the renewal risk model. Under the assumption that the claim-size distribution has a convolution-equivalent density function, which allows both heavy-tailed and light-tailed cases, we establish some...

We use the move of Israeli stocks from call auction trading to continuous trading to show that investors have a preference for stocks that trade continuously. When large stocks move from call auction to continuous trading, the small stocks that still trade by call auction experience a...