Political uncertainty drives markets. Among macroeconomic forces, it is one of the fewfactors that systematically affect most assets - hence it qualifies as a state variable in the senseof the ICAPM and should carry a risk premium. We employ static and conditional factormodels using data in...

A small but ambitious literature uses affine arbitrage-free models to estimate jointly U.S. Treasury term premiums and the term structure of equity risk premiums. Within this approach, this paper identifies the parameter restrictions that are consistent with a simple dividend discount model,...

A small but ambitious literature uses affine arbitrage-free models to estimate jointly U.S. Treasury term premiums and the term structure of equity risk premiums. Within this approach, this paper identifies the parameter restrictions that are consistent with a simple dividend discount model,...

This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial listing requirements on the various markets. We...

The Australian federal election cycle, which occurs every 3 years, causes much media attention and invokes much consternation regarding investment decisions in both the real economy and financial markets. This paper constructs measures of political uncertainty and formally explores their...

This paper studies price discovery and price convergence in securities trading within a fragmented market environment where stocks are traded on multiple venues. Although alternative venues currently increase their market share, trading on these venues instantly dries out in case the dominant...

This article confirms the existence of substantial economies of scale in trading and post-trading financial market infrastructures (FMI), using the panel data of thirty stock exchanges, twenty-nine clearing houses, and twenty-three central securities depositories from thirty-six countries. We...

This study investigates equity liquidity variation with a funding constraint across 38 countries and examines whether the effectiveness of a country’s legal institutions is systematically related to cross-country differences in fragile equity liquidity. Our results show that firms from...

Dynamics of credit markets impact almost all participants in financial markets. Yet, despite rapidly growing international credit markets, we know little about the dynamics of global credit markets, as most studies focus on the US. Here, I propose a new distance-to-default model, empirically...