"This book focuses on the consequences of the recent and prior financial crises. It also explores the relation between stock market and macroeconomics factors, earnings management, portfolio and pricing models as well as the reporting of accounting information and accounting standards"--

This paper investigates whether cointegration and causality relationships exist among the stock markets of the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) during the period 2005-2011. To accomplish our objective, we divide the sample period into two sub-periods (1 February...

This paper provides the first cross-country study on the impact of regulations on the soundness of insurance firms, using data on over 1,700 insurance firms operating in 46 countries. We find that the power of the supervisory authorities and regulations related to technical provisions have an...