Japan has experienced a deep and prolonged banking crisis in the 1990s. In this paper we attempt to identify the characteristics of companies which have the most to lose from the banks’ malaise. Using stock price data, we calculate abnormal returns of non-financial companies around significant dates in the history of the banking crisis, starting in 1995. The events we study include various gove...

Since the inception of blood banking, refinements in laboratory processes have allowed for progressively longer storage times of red blood cells. Whilst advantageous for the logistics of stock management, the clinical impact of the duration of red blood cell storage prior to transfusion remains uncertain, and a topic of growing interest.

This paper investigates the extent of vulnerability in the U.S. commercial banking system through a pro-cyclical interaction between the market-wide risk perception and systemwide asset management behavior. Based on a Markov regime-switching model, the proposed diagnostic framework clearly illustrates its ability to provide an early warning signal of the build-up and unwinding of fragility in t...

the purpose of this article is to test whether the stock price index of the tehran stock exchange is located in the efficeent set of portfolios or not. in this paper the mehtod introduced by elton, gruber and padberg was used to determine the efficiency of the tse stock price index. the results showed that the tse index is not located in the efficient set.

This paper develops a model of trading in stock and stock index security markets in the presence of transaction costs. We show that the introduction of stock index market improves the dissemination of market-wide information and index trading is more informative about stock market price movements than stock trading. The model generates rich implications on the informativeness of the stock index...

the present research aims to evaluate impacts of crude oil price return index, bloomberg petroleum index and bloomberg energy index on stock market returns of 121 companies listed in tehran stock exchange in a 10 years' period from early 2006 to april 2016. first, explanatory variables were aligned with petroleum products index mostly due to application of dollar data. subsequently, to che...

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impacts of corporate governance on credit risk in the Iranian banking industry. The sample consists of 20 banks listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2011-2016 and the statistical method is panel data. In this research, credit risk and corporate governance are the dependent and independent variables, respectively. The meta-synthesis m...

This paper pulls together existing theory and evidence to assess whether international financial liberalization, by improving the functioning of domestic financial markets and banks, accelerates economic growth. The analysis suggests that the answer is “yes.” First, liberalizing restrictions on international portfolio flows tends to enhance stock market liquidity. In turn, enhanced stock market...

This paper considers the pros and cons of establishing stock markets in Sub-Saharan African economies at the present stage of their development. It provides theoretical analysis and empirical evidence from both developing and advanced countries to argue that for many African countries such a development would be a costly irrelevance which they can ill afford; for a number of others, it is likel...