We study the impact of the adoption of zero commissions by major retail brokers and find that retail brokers that started charging zero commissions dramatically increase their market share of client assets. In addition, these retail brokers increasingly routed orders off exchange (i.e., OTC) to...

We argue that a country's institutional setting can affect investor learning and thereby stock valuation and market stability. For a global sample of firms we find that the speed with which analyst forecast errors decline and the speed with which M/B valuation attains its equilibrium value with...

This paper examines the effectiveness of worldwide banking regulations and supervisions in providing a balanced risk-reward trade-off to bank shareholders. Our comprehensive global analysis of 2,467 banks across the world identifies the regulatory frameworks that are associated with favorable...

We use the introduction of two multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) to examine the impact of market fragmentation on commonality in liquidity. We find that the introduction of MTFs following the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive increases the comovement of stocks' liquidity with MTF...