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U.S. stocks in the presence of oil price risk: Large cap vs. small cap (2017)
Journal Article
Swaray, R., Salisu, A. A., & Oloko, T. (2017). U.S. stocks in the presence of oil price risk: Large cap vs. small cap. Economics and business letters, 6(4), 116-124. https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.6.4.2017.116-124

This study queries the act of making generalization about the dynamics of returns and volatility spillovers between oil price and U.S. stocks by merely considering only large cap stocks. It argues that this kind of generalization may be misleading, a... Read More about U.S. stocks in the presence of oil price risk: Large cap vs. small cap.

Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange (2017)
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Hsieh, T. H., Li, Y., McKillop, D. G., & Wu, Y. (2018). Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange. International review of financial analysis, 56, 12-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.006

We study liquidity on the London Stock Exchange. We find that the average bid-ask spread declines, but that the skewness of the spread increases. These results are robust to firm size, trading volume and price level. Our findings hold when the bid-as... Read More about Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange.

Founders and board structure: evidence from UK IPO firms (2017)
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Wu, C. Y., & Hsu, H. H. (2018). Founders and board structure: evidence from UK IPO firms. International review of financial analysis, 56, 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.002

This study investigates whether a company's founders affect the combination of executive, grey and independent directors on its board at the time of initial public offering (IPO) in the UK. Particularly, we analyse how venture capitalists are associa... Read More about Founders and board structure: evidence from UK IPO firms.

Estimating Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate And Misalignment In An Oil Exporting Country: Libya's Experience (2017)
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Ben-Naser, A., Bhattarai, K., & Elheddad, M. M. (2018). Estimating Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate And Misalignment In An Oil Exporting Country: Libya's Experience. The journal of developing areas, 52(4), 249-267. https://doi.org/10.1353/jda.2018.0063

Exchange rate misalignments has attract a significant attention especially in developing economies; Libyan economy has witnessed a major economic and political changes. Libyan exchange rate has been changed specifically after 2000, and political ins... Read More about Estimating Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate And Misalignment In An Oil Exporting Country: Libya's Experience.

CEO compensation and sustainability reporting assurance: Evidence from the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Shaer, H., & Zaman, M. (2017). CEO compensation and sustainability reporting assurance: Evidence from the UK. Journal of Business Ethics, 158(1), 233–252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3735-8

© 2017 The Author(s) Companies are expected to monitor sustainable behaviour to help improve performance, enhance reputation and increase chances of survival. This paper examines the relationship between sustainability committees and independent exte... Read More about CEO compensation and sustainability reporting assurance: Evidence from the UK.

Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt (2017)
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Bhattarai, K., Haughton, J. H., & Tuerck, D. (2017). Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt. 00 Journal not listed, 20-21

Reforming the tax system of the US has become a major policy agenda of the Trump administration. After months of negotiations the “Big Six”, including the Treasury Secretary, National Economic Director, Republicans in the House and the Senate are gra... Read More about Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt.

Firm performance, corporate governance and executive compensation in Pakistan (2017)
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Sheikh, M. F., Shah, S. Z. A., & Akbar, S. (2018). Firm performance, corporate governance and executive compensation in Pakistan. Applied economics, 50(18), 2012-2027. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1386277

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This study examines the effects of firm performance and corporate governance on chief executive officer (CEO) compensation in an emerging market, Pakistan. Using a more robust Generalized... Read More about Firm performance, corporate governance and executive compensation in Pakistan.

Cyclical co-movements of private real estate, public real estate and equity markets: a cross-continental spectrum (2017)
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Devaney, S., & Xiao, Q. (2017). Cyclical co-movements of private real estate, public real estate and equity markets: a cross-continental spectrum. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 42-43, 132-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2017.10.002

Whether returns from investing in real estate shares reflect equity market or real estate market trends is an important question for investors seeking liquid, low cost exposure to real estate. We consider the relationship between real estate shares,... Read More about Cyclical co-movements of private real estate, public real estate and equity markets: a cross-continental spectrum.

Test of recent advances in extracting information from option prices (2017)
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Healy, J. V., Gregoriou, A., & Hudson, R. (2018). Test of recent advances in extracting information from option prices. International review of financial analysis, 56, 292-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.09.011

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. A large literature exists on techniques for extracting probability distributions for future asset prices from option prices. No definitive method has been developed however. The parametric 'mixture of normals', and non-parametric... Read More about Test of recent advances in extracting information from option prices.

The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals (2017)
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Haughton, J., Bachman, P., Bhattarai, K., & Tuerck, D. G. (2017). The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals. Atlantic Economic Journal, 45(4), 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-017-9554-6

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the Democratic and Republican candidates for President of the U.S. in 2016, proposed several changes in the federal tax code. Hillary Clinton would add a personal income tax surcharge of 4% on high annual incomes, li... Read More about The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals.

Tax plan debates in the US presidential election : a dynamic CGE analysis of growth and redistribution trade-offs (2017)
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Bhattarai, K., Bachman, P., Conte, F., Haughton, J., Head, M., & Tuerck, D. G. (2018). Tax plan debates in the US presidential election : a dynamic CGE analysis of growth and redistribution trade-offs. Economic modelling, 68, 529-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.08.031

The two major candidates in the 2016 presidential election made sharply different proposals for reforming the Federal tax code. Donald Trump proposed cutting taxes to provide “tax relief for middle-class Americans”, and lowering corporation taxes to... Read More about Tax plan debates in the US presidential election : a dynamic CGE analysis of growth and redistribution trade-offs.

R&D investments and credit lines (2017)
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Guney, Y., Karpuz, A., & Ozkan, N. (2017). R&D investments and credit lines. Journal of Corporate Finance, 46, 261-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.07.011

Using data for 939 publicly listed firms from 17 European countries over the period from 2004 to 2013, we investigate the effect of used credit lines on R&D investments, controlling for other determinants of R&D investments, i.e., cash flows, cash ho... Read More about R&D investments and credit lines.

Incumbency and Distributive Politics: Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico: Incumbency and Distributive Politics (2017)
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Abbott, A., Cabral, R., & Jones, P. (2017). Incumbency and Distributive Politics: Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico: Incumbency and Distributive Politics. Southern Economic Journal, 84(2), 484-503. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12226

In this article, the objective is to focus on the likelihood that politicians will rely on intergovernmental transfers to pursue political ambition. In what circumstances are incumbents more likely to rely on transfers to win votes, than to reward co... Read More about Incumbency and Distributive Politics: Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico: Incumbency and Distributive Politics.

Community operational research and citizen science: two icons in need of each other? (2017)
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Gregory, A. J., & Atkins, J. P. (2018). Community operational research and citizen science: two icons in need of each other?. European journal of operational research, 268(3), 1111-1124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.07.037

Citizen Science attracts a lot of positive attention and a convenient alignment with it might offer multiple benefits for Community Operational Research. But what would be the basis for such an alignment? Could it offer important reciprocal benefits... Read More about Community operational research and citizen science: two icons in need of each other?.

Credit supply constraints and financial policies of listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis (2017)
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Akbar, S., Rehman, S. U., Liu, J., & Shah, S. Z. A. (2017). Credit supply constraints and financial policies of listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. Research in international business and finance, 42, 559-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.001

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This study examines the effects of lending constraints on the financial policies of UK publicly listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. Using a sample of 2039 publicly listed firms, the results of our analysis ind... Read More about Credit supply constraints and financial policies of listed companies during the 2007–2009 financial crisis.

Stock liquidity and SMEs’ likelihood of bankruptcy: evidence from the US market (2017)
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El Kalak, I., Azevedo, A., Hudson, R., & Abd Karim, M. (2017). Stock liquidity and SMEs’ likelihood of bankruptcy: evidence from the US market. Research in international business and finance, 42, 1383-1393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.077

We study the association between the stock liquidity of SMEs in the US and their likelihood of bankruptcy, using a dataset that comprises information on 5075 firms over the time period from 1984 to 2013 using the hazard model of Campbell et al. (2008... Read More about Stock liquidity and SMEs’ likelihood of bankruptcy: evidence from the US market.

CEO compensation and banks’ risk-taking during pre and post financial crisis periods (2017)
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Shah, S. Z. A., Akbar, S., Liu, J., Liu, Z., & Cao, S. (2017). CEO compensation and banks’ risk-taking during pre and post financial crisis periods. Research in international business and finance, 42, 1489-1503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.089

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This study examines the impact of CEO compensation on banks’ risk during both pre and post-financial crisis periods. Our results suggest a negative relationship between CEO bonuses and banks’ risk in the pre-financial crisis peri... Read More about CEO compensation and banks’ risk-taking during pre and post financial crisis periods.

The adaptiveness in stock markets: testing the stylized facts in the DAX 30 (2017)
Journal Article
He, X. Z., & Li, Y. (2017). The adaptiveness in stock markets: testing the stylized facts in the DAX 30. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 27(5), 1071-1094. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-017-0505-9

By testing a simple asset pricing model of heterogeneous agents to characterize the power-law behavior of the DAX 30 from 1975 to 2007, we provide supporting evidence on empirical findings that investors and fund managers use combinations of fixed an... Read More about The adaptiveness in stock markets: testing the stylized facts in the DAX 30.

CEO turnover in large banks : does tail risk matter? (2017)
Journal Article
Srivastav, A., Keasey, K., Mollah, S., & Vallascas, F. (2017). CEO turnover in large banks : does tail risk matter?. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 64(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2017.05.001

Using a unique international dataset, we show that the CEOs of large banks exhibit an increased probability of forced turnover when their organizations are more exposed to idiosyncratic tail risks. The importance of idiosyncratic tail risk in CEO dis... Read More about CEO turnover in large banks : does tail risk matter?.

The intergenerational transmission of education : new evidence from adoptions in the United States (2017)
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Silles, M. A. (2017). The intergenerational transmission of education : new evidence from adoptions in the United States. Economica, 84(336), 748-778. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12240

This article examines the influence of parental education on children’s grade-for-age using a large sample of adoptees drawn from the American Community Survey between 2008 and 2014. The results show that mother’s education is not an important determ... Read More about The intergenerational transmission of education : new evidence from adoptions in the United States.