We analyze the implications of the tournament-like competition in the mutual fund industry for shareholder welfare using a framework that addresses both (a) the risk taking incentives, and (b) the effort incentives facing fund managers. We compare the ex ante shareholder utility under two...

We examine the performance of technical trading rules in the emerging Chinese stock markets. After controlling for non-synchronous trading and transaction costs, we find significant evidence to support the predictability and profitability of technical rules for Chinese foreign B-shares but not...

In the early 1990s, the Chilean government restricted the flow of capital into the country in order to achieve a competitive and stable exchange rate and to control inflation; by the late 1990s, with the Asian Financial Crisis, the risk-averse behavior of foreign investors caused a slowdown in...

In the early 1990s, the Chilean government restricted the flow of capital into the country in order to achieve a competitive and stable exchange rate and to control inflation; by the late 1990s, with the Asian Financial Crisis, the risk-averse behavior of foreign investors caused a slowdown in...

This paper examines the impact of the opioid epidemic on the financing costs of local governments. We find that a higher county-level drug overdose death rate raises offering yield spreads for local municipal bond issuers, while lowering their debt capacity. A causal interpretation is suggested...

The passive targeting via nanomedicine to pancreatic tumor microenvironment (TME) is identified as an optimized therapeutic strategy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) because lacking specific biomarkers and the intractable anatomical position. Herein, an in vitro 3D PDAC model was set...

We exploit China's great stock market crash in 2015 to study the effects of government stock purchases. The Chinese government purchased stocks to stabilize the market through state-owned financial institutions collectively called the “National Team”. We find that the intervention led to...

To date, China has maintained a variety of restrictions on its financial markets. In addition to imposing capital controls and regulating interest rates, the government controls both the set of firms that can sell equity on the domestic or foreign stock markets, and the amount they can sell....

The rapid development of artificial intelligence methods contributes to their wide applications for forecasting various financial risks in recent years. This study introduces a novel explainable case-based reasoning (CBR) approach without a requirement of rich expertise in financial risk....