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International Journal of Financial Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4

2021 December - 22 articles

Cover Story: The purpose of this study is to investigate the fluctuations that occur in stock returns of US stock indices when there is an increase in the volume of Google internet searches for “quantitative easing” in the US. The EGARCH model was applied, and the result was strong in three of the four stock indices studied. Specifically, the SVI index was statistically significant, with a positive trend for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices and a negative trend for the VIX index. Although there is a large body of research using Google Trends as a crowdsourcing method, this paper is the first to examine “quantitative easing” and stock market returns. View this paper.
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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,832 Views
17 Pages

The rapid development of online lending in the past decade, while providing convenience and efficiency, also generates large hidden credit risk for the financial system. Will removing financial intermediaries really provide more efficiency to the len...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,886 Views
15 Pages

The Role of Ownership Structure and Board Characteristics in Stock Market Liquidity

  • Wajih Abbassi,
  • Ahmed Imran Hunjra,
  • Suha Mahmoud Alawi and
  • Rashid Mehmood

Corporate governance plays a significant role in the value of shareholders and share prices, hence stock market liquidity is affected. Previous research has mainly focused on the issue in developed markets, whereas in developing countries there is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,971 Views
20 Pages

From a financial perspective, working capital represents the liquidity of firms that makes them able to deal with short-term liabilities in current assets (inventories, receivables accounts, and net financial resources). However, this concept is also...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,545 Views
15 Pages

Has the EU-ETS Financed the Energy Transition of the Italian Power System?

  • Massimiliano Caporin,
  • Fulvio Fontini and
  • Samuele Segato

This paper focuses on the relationship between the European Union Emission Trading System allowances’ prices and the Italian electricity price, aiming at assessing whether such a mechanism has been a driver for the decarbonization of the power sector...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,901 Views
16 Pages

The aim of this study is to investigate the herding of beta transmission between return and volatility. We have used the dynamic conditional correlation model with the mixed-data sampling (DCC-MIDAS) model for the analysis. The evidence demonstrates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,637 Views
18 Pages

Impact of MiFID II on Romanian Stock Market Liquidity—Comparative Analysis with a Developed Stock Market

  • Marius Cristian Miloș,
  • Laura Raisa Miloș,
  • Flavia Barna and
  • Claudiu Boțoc

In light of previous literature that has investigated the effects of MiFID and MiFID II regulation on stock market liquidity, we investigate whether the introduction of MiFID II in Romania has had any effect on the stock market liquidity. Through our...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,933 Views
21 Pages

The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Earnings Management: Bibliometric Review

  • José Manuel Santos-Jaén,
  • Ana León-Gómez and
  • José Serrano-Madrid

This review aims to study the knowledge development and research dissemination on the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on earnings management through a social network approach using a bibliometric review. A systematic bibliometric r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
88,452 Views
16 Pages

The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. In this study, we examine the effect of COVID-19 indicators and policy response on the Saudi banking index. COVID-19 variables that were applied are: new c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,215 Views
29 Pages

E-commerce and FinTech are currently booming in China. The growing consumer market is accompanied by internet finance, by which consumers can easily borrow money from financial institutions online. As a result, the growing risks of financial institut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,167 Views
33 Pages

Reliability and Accuracy of Alternative Default Prediction Models: Evidence from Slovakia

  • Daniela Rybárová,
  • Helena Majdúchová,
  • Peter Štetka and
  • Darina Luščíková

The aim of this paper is to assess the reliability of alternative default prediction models in local conditions, with subsequent comparison with other generally known and globally disseminated default prediction models, such as Altman’s Z-score...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,677 Views
21 Pages

The scope of this study is to examine the impact of board gender diversity on corporate cash-holding decisions within the European sport and leisure sector. A sample of 125 unique firms was selected for the period from 2008 to 2019, and analysis was...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,391 Views
22 Pages

In this study, we consider the construction of through-the-cycle (“TTC”) PD models designed for credit underwriting uses and point-in-time (“PIT”) PD models suitable for early warning uses, considering which validation element...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,369 Views
21 Pages

Despite developments of recent theoretical and numerous empirical studies on the policies effectively adopted by companies, the dividend distribution policy (DDP) remains largely unexplained. In this regard, the main purpose of the current study is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,920 Views
20 Pages

This study investigates the level, structure, and pay-for-performance relationship of CEO compensation in Korean non-life insurance companies. We find that seniority plays an important role in setting CEO compensation practices and that performance-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,804 Views
13 Pages

Prior studies that examine the relation between market depth and bid–ask spread are often limited to the first level of the limit order book. However, the full limit order book provides important information beyond the first level about the depth and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,323 Views
17 Pages

This article studies the effects of reverse factoring in a supply chain when the buyer company facilitates its lower short-term borrowing rates to the supplier corporation in return for extended payment terms. We explore the role of interest rate cha...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,958 Views
42 Pages

We propose a mathematical model of momentum risk-taking, which is essentially real-time risk management focused on short-term volatility. Its implementation, a fully automated momentum equity trading system, is systematically discussed in this paper....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,138 Views
18 Pages

This study aimed to test, through empirical investigation, how the rapid advancement of digital transformation (DT) has impacted the price of financial services. To this end, we compiled a set of macro-level indicators on the aggregate outcomes of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,222 Views
19 Pages

The purpose of this study is to investigate the fluctuations that occur in stock returns of US stock indices when there is an increase in the volume of Google internet searches for the phrase “quantitative easing” in the US. The exponential generaliz...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,904 Views
21 Pages

In this challenging and innovative article, we propose a framework for the consumer behavior named “consumer financial spinning”. It occurs when borrowers-consumers of products with high financial stakes accumulate unsustainable debt and disconnect f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,764 Views
17 Pages

The present work aimed to examine the association between Corporate Social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) taking into account corporate social irresponsibility. Here, we used a sample of French non-financial firms listed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,156 Views
18 Pages

We examine the impact of corporate risk-taking on firm-level real earnings management. We find that firms with higher risk-taking engage in higher real earnings management. Our results are robust to a series of robustness tests, including simultaneou...

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Int. J. Financial Stud. - ISSN 2227-7072