The U.S. and Germany rank #1 and #3, respectively, in the world, in terms of the total amount of international trade. U.S. and German firms compete with one another for a larger market share in other countries and in each other's local markets. And yet, there are no published studies that...

International finance theory argues that integrated markets are priced using common information. In this study, we search twelve European Capital Markets for breakpoints in the way assets are priced and correlate these dates to events in each country. Our analysis shows that the events are...

Purpose: DuPont financial analysis is generally used in micro-economic studies to compare an individual firm’s financial performance with industry averages. The purpose of this paper is to undertake a macro-economic cross-sectional analysis of the determinants of return-on-equity (ROE) in...

Business risk and financial risk are among the most important concepts in corporate finance. The total risk of a corporation is the sum of its business risk and financial risk. Business risk is the risk of the corporation before the financing decision. It is the uncertainty inherent in the...

The number of cross-border mergers and acquisitions has increased considerably after the 2007-2008 financial crisis. However, the post-crisis M&A market has not been studied sufficiently. In this paper, we compare the financial characteristics of the U.S. companies acquired by foreign companies...

Global portfolio diversification is recommended because of low correlation between national equity markets. However, recent empirical studies find that correlation between national stock markets has been increasing and the benefit of global portfolio diversification has been decreasing. In this...