This paper investigates the role of political crises in explaining the degree of stock market integration in emerging markets over the period 1991–2006. Using the International Crisis Behavior database, which contains detailed information on political crises around the world, and employing...

We investigate the behaviour of bid-ask spread components around the U.S. Federal Funds Rate announcements for a sample of cross-listed firms in Canada and in the U.S. We use transaction level data to decompose the spread into its three components, namely, information asymmetry, order...

This paper investigates the role of political crises in explaining the change in the degree of stock market integration for emerging markets over the period 1991-2006. Using a unique database, the International Crisis Behavior database, which contains detailed information about political crises...

We study the relation between equity market uncertainty and the informational efficiency of U.S. equity prices, proxied by the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF. Using the Baker, Bloom, and Davis (2016) equity market uncertainty index, we document a negative relation between market uncertainty and...