A Comparison of the Cost of Trading French Shares on the Paris Bourse and on SEAQ International
This paper analyses the cost of trading French shares on two exchanges, the Paris Bourse and London's SEAQ International. Using a large data set...
Debt and Seniority: An Analysis of the Role of Hard Claims in Constraining Management
We develop a theory of long term debt based on the idea that debt and equity differ in their priority status relative to future corporate cash...
A Proposal for Bankruptcy Reform in the UK
There is a widespread belief that UK bankruptcy procedures are not working well, in spite of the 1986 reforms. A recent Coopers and Lybrand report...
The Econometrics of Stochastic Volatility
A stochastic volatility model may be estimated by a quasi-maximum likelihood procedure by transforming to a linear state space form. The method is...
Limited Market Participation and Volatility of Asset Prices
This is considerable empirical evidence that most investors participate in only a limited number of markets. Once the participation decision is...
European Exchange Rate Credibility Before the Fall
Realignment expectations which measure exchange rate credibility are analyzed for European exchange rates, using daily financial data since the...
Fixing Exchange Rates: A Virtual Quest for Fundamentals
Fixed exchange rates are less volatile than floating rates. But the volatility of macroeconomic variables such as money and output does not change...
Risk and Return in January: Some UK Evidence
A large body of empirical research has found that stock returns tend to be higher in January than in other months. One possible explanation is that...
Optimal Debt Structure With Multiple Creditors
Within an optimal contracting framework, we analyze some important aspects of debt structure: the number of creditors a company borrows from; the...
UK Directors' Trading: The Impact of Dealings in Smaller Firms
This paper reassesses the UK results of significant abnormal returns from directors' trading for a new sample of directors' trades 1984-1986, and...
Interday Price Formation on the London Stock Exchange
Using transactions data from the London Stock Exchange, the paper estimates the extent to which market maker's prices are influenced by trades (order...
The Economics of Mass Privatization: Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland
This paper addresses the economics of mass privatization in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungry and Poland; it provides a summary description of the...
Empirical Cross-Section Dynamics in Economic Growth
Traditional empirical strategies for studying convergence—more generally, the dynamics and determinants of economic growth—can be misleading if...
Theories of Intermediation – Implications for Regulation
This paper seeks to stimulate thought and discussion regarding the future of regulation and the evolution of the financial sector. This first part...
The Interaction between the Frequency of Market Quotations, Spread and Volatility in the Foreign Exchange Market
This paper investigates the empirical relationship between volatility, average spread, and number of quotations in the foreign exchange spot market...
