We examine stock and bond market reactions to the key events leading to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act to provide empirical evidence on the economic impact of the Act on systemically important financial firms. Using large foreign financial institutions and small/medium sized domestic...

Using the monthly returns of 37,854 firms in 23 developed markets over the period 1990-2015, we document that multinational companies earn higher returns than domestic companies by 24 basis points per month. This finding is further confirmed by using a sample of 18,996 U.S. firms over the period...