Once a famous tale of conquest, law and foreign bond markets, the saga of the Silesian Bonds of 1734-37 is missing from the literature on sovereign debt. The Silesian Bonds were among the earliest foreign currency sovereign bonds issued. They go into the market 84 years prior to the 1818...

As global climate and sustainable challenges gain more attention, green finance has emerged as a significant focus of worldwide financial reform, with green bonds serving as a key indicator. Retail investors, as an important part of the financial market, have a significant impact on the...

This paper analyses the role of Sukuk issuance in driving economic growth amid the Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009), considering both short-term fluctuations and long-term outcomes during periods of financial distress.Using the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) approach of the ARDL model, the study...

We propose a macro-finance model in which inflation, growth, and the policy rate are driven by unobservable long-run trends and transitory cycles that investors must infer from aggregate data. Their subjective estimates of these trends, and the uncertainty surrounding them, are priced into the...

State-contingent debt (SCD) instruments have been proposed as an improvement to sovereign debt markets, but their issuance costs are not well understood. We estimate the SCD premium at issuance and for more than a decade thereafter, employing a quasi-twin bond strategy that uses two very similar...

This research evaluates the extent to which firms' "green" bond disclosures create and convey a meaningful representation of their Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") commitments. Additionally, this research explores how investors distinguish between disclosures that represent genuine...

Interpretability analysis methods, such as LIME and SHAP, are widely employed to explain the predictions of artificial intelligence models; however, they primarily function as post hoc tools and do not directly quantify the intrinsic interpretability of the models. Although it is commonly...

We provide empirical evidence that the pricing of green bonds tends to be highly sophisticated and based on a two-tiered approach. When buying a green bond, investors do not look only at the presence of a green label, but also consider additional characteristics of the bond that involve the...

Global warming remains one of the greatest threats to the sustainability of the planet. The literature is replete with studies investigating the economic effects of global warming with very little attention being paid to the financial ramifications. To this end, the present study attempts to...

Donald Trump's re-election and renewed exit from the Paris Agreement marked a deterioration in the US green bond market. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we estimate a 4.4-6.0 percentage point drop in issuance probability and a USD 20-28 million decline in monthly green-issuance...

We study the green bond premium, defined as the yield differential between green and matched conventional bonds in the secondary market. Existing estimates vary widely, raising questions about their robustness. We address this by estimating the premium across more than 500,000 empirical designs...

This paper uses fractional integration and cointegration methods to examine the persistence and long-run relationship between the S&P 500 index and the nominal yield to maturity of 10-year US Treasury bonds (GS10) over the period from January 1954 to December 2024. The results indicate that both...

Modern financial systems do not exist in isolation but form part of a complex global network of interconnected financial systems. This globalization of financial systems significantly increases the risk of contagion in financial markets, impacting asset prices and other important economic...

This study examines the impact of international trade shocks from South Africa and recent U.S. federal tax reforms on state-level municipal bond returns within the United States. Employing a unique transaction-level dataset comprising more than 50 million municipal bond trades from 2020 to 2024,...

This paper examines the determinants of bond issuance in the Chinese market and the influence of capital structure-in particular direct debt finance-on firm performance and the cost of debt. The results reveal that institutional factors in the Chinese market, in particular the involvement of the...

This paper examines the historical development and cross-sectional heterogeneities of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI). From an evolutionary perspective, we review and compare FMIs in the US, Europe, and China. We identify an emerging trend in which the development of FMI is transitioning...

Trying to meet unlimited human needs with limited resources causes production activities to deplete or pollute natural resources. Ensuring the sustainability of natural resources and the environment is essential to leaving a livable world for future generations. The concept of sustainable...

The period after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was characterized by a considerable risk migration within global liquidity flows, away from cross-border bank lending towards international bond issuance. We show that the post-GFC shifts in the risk sensitivities of global liquidity flows are...