Using the staggered entry of foreign countries into the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU) as a shock to the cross-border regulatory cooperation and information exchange, we find that foreign firms cross-listed in the U.S. show more analyst following, and less analyst forecast error...

In this paper we introduce a new nonlinear Markov-STAR model to capture both the markov switching and smooth transition dynamics for real exchange rates. The Markov switching part captures the effect of time variations of the equilibrium exchange rates, while the smooth transition part models...

The Campbell-Shiller present value formula implies a factor structure for the price-rent ratio of the housing market. Using a dynamic factor model, we decompose the price-rent ratios of 17 major housing markets into a national factor and independent local factors, and we link these factors to...