Article history: Received 1 June 2013 Received in revised form 11 March 2015 Accepted 12 March 2015 Available online 21 March 2015 JEL classification: F21 F41 G15

E 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Article history: Received 15 November 2012 Received in revised form 25 January 2013 Accepted 29 January 2013 Available online xxxx JEL classification: C15 C32 G13 G15

7 Article history: 8 Received 15 November 2012 9 Received in revised form 25 January 2013 10 Accepted 29 January 2013 11 Available online xxxx 1234 15 JEL classification: 16 C15 17 C32 18 G13 19 G15 20

Custodians play a key but discrete role in the global financial market infrastructure. In Europe, they are licensed as “credit institutions ”, legal requirement for European deposit-taking institutions, and therefore face same prudential requirements “traditional” banks. However, their business model risk profile different from those of traditional banks since core activity does not encompass b...

In this discussion of Almeida and Dalmacio (2015), we highlight some theoretical considerations that links analyst forecast properties with two disciplining mechanisms (i.e. product market competition and corporate governance) and also provide some directions for future research especially in the Brazilian context. © 2015 University of Illinois. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G15; G30...

Following the well-known approach by Adler and Dumas (1984) we evaluate the foreign exchange rate exposure of nations. Results based on data from 27 countries show that national foreign exchange rate exposures are significantly related to the current balance variables of corresponding economies. JEL Classification: G15, F31

We investigate the heterogeneous boom and bust patterns across countries that emerge as a result of global shocks. Our analysis sheds light on emergence core periphery countries, joint determination depth recessions tightness credit countries. The model implies interest rates are similar in booms, with larger output growth However, common shock leads to crunch globe gives rise sharper spike dee...

ABSTRACT We apply the moderated confidence hypothesis (MCH) to investigate overreaction and underreaction in intra-industry earnings information transfers an international setting. MCH predicts that late announcing firms' investors overreact (underreact) early industry peers' news when is imprecise (precise) signals of earnings. Consistent with this notion, we find a large sample firms. To exte...

This paper examines the preferences of foreign and dometic institutional investors in Indian stock markets. Foreign and domestic institutional investors both prefer larger, widely dispersed firms and do not chase returns. However, we find evidence of strong differences in the behaviour of foreign and domestic institutional investors. Foreign investors prefer to buy private, liquid, young and gl...