In this paper, we document that US cross-listed firms experience negative return spillovers in the three-day event window centered on the filing of US class action lawsuits launched against their country peers. This spillover effect is both economically large (-0.139%) and statistically...

Using intraday prices for the S&P 500 and Nikkei Stock Average stock indexes and aggregate trading volume for the New York and Tokyo Stock Exchanges, we show how short-run comovements between national stock market returns vary over time in a way related to the trading volume and liquidity in...