This paper examines the stock market impact of announcements of corporate bond rating revisions for companies in the United Kingdom (UK) and in Australia. Investigating the market reaction to bond rating changes by Moody's and Standard & Poor's, our findings reveal similar results for downgrade...

Rational strategic planning has long been used as an instrument to improve financial performance. With the increasing complexity of the business environment, this positive impact has decreased. As a result, there have been several calls for more work focusing on investigating and understanding...

We assess the stock market volatility spillover between three closely related countries, United States, China and Australia. This study considers industry data and hence provides a clear idea of the channels through which volatility is transmitted across these countries. We find that there is...

Despite the increasingly tight economic relationship between China and Australia, little attention has been paid to the analysis of stock market volatility spillover across these two countries. This paper, based on industry data, fills the gap in the literature and provides a clear idea of the...

This paper investigates whether there is a banking risk premium that helps explain the returns of US publicly listed firms. We assess this phenomenon in the context of the capital asset pricing model and the Fama and French three-factor model. We use bank size to create the banking factor – a...