Due to the fact that the European transition economies practically started from scratch in financial market development the size of financial markets in the CE-10 is significantly smaller with respect to GDP than in developed market economies. We can show by residual analysis that financial markets in the Czech Republic and Slovakia still need some restructuring. We also find that stock markets hardly contribute to economic prosperity, neither in the CE-10 nor in the EU. (authors' abstract) / Series: EI Working Papers / Europainstitut

Chapter 2 undertakes a new investigation of the potential for options to mitigate short sale constraints, conducing two event studies which examine 1732 option introductions and the differential effect of the 2008 short sale ban on optioned and non-optioned stocks. I find option introduction mitigates 79% of the price adjustment efficiency disparity between short sale constrained and unconstrained stocks in relation to negative news. I also find evidence that negative information was incorporated more freely into optioned stocks during the short sale transaction ban of financial sector stocks. These results collectively suggest that in the presence of binding short sale constraints, options act as an effective substitute to short sales, significantly contributing to the informational efficiency of the market. In Chapter 3 we examine the determinants of success of foreign cross-listings in the U.S. using cumulative returns surrounding the cross-listing event and liquidity on the U.S. exchange as joint metrics of success. We find that the post-listing liquidity and valuation benefits of cross-listings are crucially dependent both on prior home-market success and on U.S. institutional holdings in the cross-listing quarter. Stocks with greater institutional ownership upon cross-listing see more liquid U.S. trading. Additionally, firms with a higher abnormal price run-up in the year prior to cross-listing and firms that see more liquid domestic trading enjoy greater post-listing liquidity in the U.S. Chapter 4 examines the asset allocation decisions of mutual fund investors, focusing on flight to quality considerations. Using the default spread, term spread and short term interest rate as proxies for economic conditions, we find that an expected improvement (deterioration) in Canadian economic conditions causes investors to direct flow away from (towards) fixed income-type funds and towards (out of) equity based funds. For example, a one standard deviation increase in the term spread (1.13%) results in an 84% increase and a 74% decrease in the percentage of flow directed at Canadian equity and money market funds respectively, relative to the previous month. / Finance

This dissertation investigates the information considerations of volatility, pricediscovery and the relationship change in volume and volatility resulting from index derivatives transactions on financial markets in Australia. The impact of information on volatility was investigated in the essay one, as volatility is a key factor for accurately pricing derivative securities. I assessed the forecast accuracy, unbiasedness and information content of volatility forecasts, based on implied volatility and conditional volatility models for the S&P/ASX 200 Index Options market in Australia. The conditional volatility models produce the most accurate forecasts and are robust when forecasting into short time horizons. Essay two, investigates the information content of the index and option markets in the price-discovery process. Based on the above volatility results, the long-run equilibrium relationship between the share price index and the implied price of the share-price-index option was investigated. Causality was determined to show which market leads the other. Information share measures were used to gauge the contribution of the share price index and index option markets to the price-discovery process. Unambiguous evidence shows the index market leads the options market and the former contributes more to price-discovery than the latter. In essay three, I investigate the dynamic relationship between the future price volatility of the S&P/ASX 200 Index and the trading volume of the S&P/ASX 200 Index Options to explore the informational role of option volume in predicting price volatility. I found the contemporaneous call options volume have a significant strong positive feedback effect on the implied volatility, but the contemporaneous feedback effect of volume on the TARCH volatility is insignificant. The contemporaneous feedback effects from the implied volatility and the TARCH volatility to the call options volume are positive, significant and strong.

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This collected volume gives a concise account of the most rel-evant scientific results of the COST Action IS1104 "The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation", a four-year project supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). It is divided into three parts reflecting the different perspectives under which complex spatial economic systems have been studied: (i) the Macro perspective looks at the interactions among international or regional trading partners; (ii) the Meso perspective considers the functioning of (financial, labour) markets as social network structures; and, finally, (iii) the Micro perspective focuses on the strategic choices of single firms and households. This Volume points also at open issues to be addressed in future research.

Le régulateur des marchés financiers, en réponse à l'augmentation progressive de ses pouvoirs de sanction, s'est vu enfermé dans un carcan procédural si étroit qu'il risque à terme d'en paralyser le fonctionnement. Cette thèse vise à démontrer comment le couple formé par l'AMF et l'autorité judiciaire se complète pour animer le système français de régulation des marchés financiers. La première partie détaille l'évolution historique de la régulation française qui a vu ses régulateurs successifs étendre leurs champs de pouvoirs, de sanction notamment. Pour légitimer ses nouvelles attributions quasi juridictionnelles le régulateur a été contraint de se voir doté d'un socle procédural de droit commun, qu'il partage avec les juridictions qui sous certains aspects semblent avoir absorbé sa fonction régulatrice des marchés financiers, ramenant l'AMF à un rôle d'auxiliaire de justice. La seconde partie montre que le contrôle judiciaire des décisions de l'AM F tient néanmoins compte de la spécificité de sa mission, adoptant une vision globale des différents niveaux de régulation, au risque parfois de perdre en sécurité juridique pourtant attendue par les acteurs des marchés financier. En effet, le juge participant à l'œuvre générale de régulation aux cotés de l'AMF, se voit doté d'un pouvoir quasi régulationnel. Pour que l'AMF réintègre pleinement sa fonction régulatrice qui fait sa raison d'être nous plaiderons pour un renforcement de ses pouvoirs spécifiques. / The regulator of financial markets, in response to a gradual increase in its powers of sanction was locked in a narrow procedural system that could eventually paralyze the regulator. This thesis aims to demonstrate how the couple formed by the AMF and the judiciary is completed to animate the French system of regulation of financial markets. The first part describes the historical evolution of the French regulation which has seen successive regulators expand their fields of power, including sanctions .To legitimize his new quasi-judicial functions the regulator was forced to be with a procedural basis of common law , which it shares with the courts which in some ways seem to have absorbed its regulatory function of financial markets, reducing the AMF to a judicial officer state. The second part shows that the judicial review of decisions of the AMF take nevertheless into account the specificity of its mission, taking a holistic view of the different levels of regulation ,sometimes at the risk of losing in legal certainty yet expected by the actors in the financial markets. Indeed, the judge involved in the overall implementation of regulation with AMF, is seen with a quasi regulationnal power. For the AMF fully reinstated its regulatory function that motivated its creation we plead for a strengthening of its specific powers.

Seguindo as linhas de pesquisa que visam relacionar o impacto do relacionamento com os clientes aos resultados financeiros da empresa, o presente estudo procura avaliar o impacto do word-of-mouth (WOM) negativo no retorno da ação da empresa. O comportamento de falar mal da empresa por parte dos consumidores insatisfeitos pode destruir o valor dos market-based assets (customer equity e brand equity), comprometendo o desempenho das ações da companhia. Considerando a literatura existente, esta pesquisa busca identificar o impacto do WOM negativo no desempenho das ações das empresas no curto e no longo prazo. O primeiro estudo replica o modelo de Luo (2007) para identificar o impacto do WOM negativo nos retornos de curto prazo da ação das empresas. O segundo estudo busca verificar o impacto de longo prazo a partir da comparação do desempenho de portfólios compostos por ações de empresas em relação ao seu nível de reclamações. Os resultados do primeiro estudo convergiram em certa medida com os resultados apresentados por Luo (2007) para o setor bancário, apontando para um impacto negativo das reclamações no retorno da ação, mas foram mistos quando as empresas foram avaliadas individualmente. O segundo estudo demonstrou que o portfólio composto por ações de empresas menos reclamadas teve um retorno acumulado superior ao portfólio composto pelas ações mais reclamadas, além de apresentar um risco inferior ao risco de mercado. As implicações e limitações do estudo são discutidas e são sugeridas pesquisas futuras a partir deste estudo. / Following previous research that seek to integrate customer relationship impact to firm value, the present study focus to assess the impact of negative word-of-mouth (WOM) on stock returns. Dissatisfied customers that spread negative WOM about the company can ruin market-based assets (customer equity and brand equity) and hurt its performance. Based on present literature, this research seeks to identify the impact of negative WOM on stocks’ short and long term performances. The first study replicates Luo’s (2007) model to identify the short term impact of negative WOM on stock performance. The second aims to identify the long term impact of negative WOM by comparing the performance of portfolios created based on companies level of complaints. The first study accomplished to partially replicate the results found by Luo (2007) for banking industry, finding a negative impact of negative WOM on firm stock returns, although it found mixed results when the impact was assessed for each company individually. The second study demonstrates that a portfolio with less complained companies has a superior performance over a portfolio with more complained companies, while presenting a risk below market’s level. The results implications and limitations are discussed and further studies suggestions are made.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:54:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 nervis_jj_me_bauru.pdf: 692937 bytes, checksum: a9ef52afbfe5a4ae6482213875cfd47d (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Estudos que proporcionem conhecer de forma mais adequada o mercado de capitais brasileiro são uma necessidade para um país que a cada dia tem a sua importância no cenário internacional acentuada. Compreender a dinâmica das flutuações do mercado de ações é um desafio científico possibilitado, no Brasil, por dois aspectos importantes: disponibilidade de dados de alta frequencia sobre os preços praticados no mercado e a utilização de métodos computacionais. O objetivo dessa pesquisa é verificar e analisar os principais fatos estilizados observados em séries temporais financeiras: agrupamento de volatilidade, distribuições de probabilidade com caudas gordas e a presença de memória de longo alcance na série temporal dos retornos absolutos. Para isso, foram utilizadas e analisadas as cotações intraday de ações de dez companhias negociadas na Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias e Futuros que correspondem juntas a uma participação de 52,1%, para a data de 01/09/2009, no Ìndice Bovespa. Verificou-se a existência de vários fatos estilizados em todas as ações da amostra, bem como se procedeu a caracterização desses comportamentos por meio de gráficos e medidas estatísticas / Studies that provide to know in a more suitable way the Brazilian money market are a necessity for a country that has its importance increased in the international scenery every day. Understanding the dynamics of the stock market fluctuation is a scientific challenge possible, in Brazil, because of two important aspects: availability of high frequency data on the prices practiced in the stock market and the use of computing methods. The objective of this survey is to verify and analyze the stylized facts observed in financial seasonal series: gathering of volatility, probability distribution with fat tails and the presence of high reaching memory in the seasonal series of abolute recurrence. For this, it was used and analyzed the intraday quotations over stocks of ten enterprises in the stock exchange, commodities and futures that correspond together to a participation of 52,1% to th data of 09/01/2009, in the Bovespa index. It was verified the existence os several stylized fact in all stock samples and how it was preceded the characterization of this behavior by graphic displays and statistical measures

The effects associated with foreign direct investments onto a host economy are perceived to be multi folded. FDI is perceived to enhance, not only, the accumulation of capital in a host country, but also to promote productivity, enable introduction of new processes and skills as well as enable access to new markets. However, empirical research upon if foreign direct investments affects economic growth is ambiguous. The purpose of this thesis is due to such to investigate whether the local financial market enable FDI to affect growth positively. Hence, the aim of this paper is to establish if the domestic financial sector is a vital precondition for foreign direct investment to have a positive significant effect on GDP per capita growth for developing countries. By the use of panel data regressions and three regression models, 26 countries were investigated between the years 1996 and 2015. The empirical results enabled the conclusion that local financial markets do in fact improve the effect associated with foreign direct investment for the 26 countries investigated between the years 1996 and 2015. Thus, local financial markets are a significant and crucial precondition for FDI to affect a host economy's growth positively. Due to such, developing countries should aim towards preserving as well as developing their financial markets.