Dollar-denominated deposits constitute a large proportion of deposits in many developing economies. This may result in currency mismatches on banks' balance sheets as is suggested by recent literature. In general, having dollar-denominated deposits and loans could increase financial fragility,...

Employing unique data derived directly from Reuters electronic brokerage platform for currency trading, this paper investigates the reaction of investors to central bank announcements on foreign exchange market in Poland in years 1999-2003. Our sample period is interesting as it captures a time...

Motivated by Bali et al. (2016) who find U.S. economic policy uncertainty (EPU) is priced in the cross-section of U.S. stock returns, we use weekly data from March 2006 to April 2016 to study whether shocks in U.S. EPU also influence prices of China's A-shares from market, industry, and...

We find profitability measures fail to explain future stock returns of China's A-shares. In addition, although profitability growth significantly and positively correlates with the cumulative stock return in the following year, profitability measures do not predict profitability growth,...