We document economically and statistically large 24h pre-ECB announcement re- turns in European equity. For the overall market the respective annual premium (2010 – 2015) was over 6% (Sharpe ratio of 1.5). We show that the pre-ECB return is mainly driven by periods of high uncertainty during...

On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...

Under the context of EMU debt and financial crisis we assess the impact of EMU's legislative initiative on Tobin tax for financial regulation. Specifically we focus on its impact on bond and equity volatility for a representative basket of 7 countries: Germany, France (core EMU) and Greece,...

Using data of the constituents of the MSCI USA ESG leader index, this study investigates the herding behavior in the US ESG stocks over the period from January 03, 2007 to September 30, 2020. Our results reveal a significant herding behavior in the US ESG leader stocks. Our findings also show...

The process of financial integration has increased the exposure of South African financial markets to foreign financial crises. This paper contributes to the understanding of crisis transmission by evaluating several hypotheses that claim to explain how financial crises are transmitted to South...

Previous research has proven that large financial markets can be prime determinants of volatility in smaller markets. This paper seeks to examine in a broader sense the linkages between developed and emerging financial markets. More specifically, we examine the relationship between two greatest...

The admission by the Greek government on October 18, 2009, of large-scale accounting fraud in its national accounts sparked an unprecedented sovereign debt crisis that rapidly spread to the Euro-Zone's weakest member states. As the crisis increasingly drove a wedge between a seemingly resilient...

Regulators of financial institutions in most parts of the globe are making impressive achievement in terms of regulating the behavior of banks on the level of risk they can take in making investment decisions. Professionals in the finance industry have made a huge impact in trying to regulate...

This paper proposes and applies an analytical framework to assess vulnerabilities of emerging and developing economies to the global financial and economic crisis. The analytical framework identifies six different channels of vulnerability to the global financial and economic crisis and...