The recent international financial crisis exposed many of the frailties that exist within the European banking sector. One major decision taken by the European Commission was to transition the powers of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors to that of the European Banking Authority...

The Irish financial crisis through the period between 2008 and 2012 caused unprecedented damage to the national economy while generating substantial inequality and demographic issues through the austerity measures that followed. While large amounts of taxation has gone towards understanding the...

The full-text version of this paper can be found at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3102438" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3102438. This online appendix provides supplemental discussion and analysis for our manuscript The Determinants of IPO Withdrawal - Evidence from Europe. The supplemental...

Why do companies, having filed for an IPO and incurred the costs thereof, not follow through? We investigate this by examining all common stock IPO's for the largest countries in Europe over the 2001-2015 period, covering more than 80% of the Western European IPO market by number and value. We...

This paper estimates the influence of terrorist attacks on European tourism through the short-term post-hoc response of the airline industry and passengers. We use a seasonally-adjusted ARMA-GARCH methodology on unique datasets that examine changes in tourism as measured by ASKs, seats filled...

This paper investigates if changes in network connectedness of European sovereign bond markets from 2005 to 2011 was an indicator of the subsequent financial crisis. The unified methodology proposed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2014) is used to overcome weaknesses in alternative methodologies to...

The Irish bailout highlighted two major issues about the involvement of multilateral agencies in Europe: one was their desire for visible short-term solutions and second is a significant disregard of the political institutions with which they were forced to engage. The Irish case study and more...