This paper shows that the leverage ratio affects repo intermediation for banks and non-bank financial institutions. We exploit a novel regulatory change in the UK to identify an exogenous intensification of the leverage ratio and combine this with supervisory transaction-level data capturing the...

An important feature of the development of capital market in India in the last 20 years has been the growing participation of Institutional Investors. investors comprise both foreign institutional investors and the domestic institutional investors. In India, these institutional investors manage...

This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on banking sector profitability in Uganda for the period spanning Q1 2000 to Q1 2021, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL Bound) testing approach to co-integration while controlling for bank specific and macroeconomic...

The study investigates the relationships between the Indian stock market index (BSE Sensex) and five macroeconomic variables, namely, industrial production index, wholesale price index, money supply, treasury bills rates and exchange rates over the period January 2007 to March 2014. Johansen's...

While many studies analyze the impact of scheduled macroeconomic announcements on equity market volatility, few focus on the impact on option implied volatilities. In this study, we examine the link between German and U.S. macroeconomic events and the implied volatility indices VDAX and VIX. We...

This paper quantifies the impact on the cost of funding in repo markets of the initial margins applied by central clearing counterparties (CCPs). We use contract-level data on the general collateral (GC) segment of Italy's MTS Repo market between January 2011 and April 2014. The analysis shows...

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the financial and business cycles in Turkey. A quarterly dataset was used for the analysis that covers the period from 1998Q1 to 2014Q4. The cycles were obtained with a Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter design. The...

The growth of financial system, as the central hub of every economy is paramount for economic development. The reformation of the financial sector is the bedrock for building a formidable, transparent and efficient financial system that could supports the mobilisation of domestic and foreign...

The effect of corporate governance failure and agency behaviour on stock market prices has long been of great interest to financial economists, behavioural scientists and capital market researchers. Yet there is to date no consensus over what constitutes an effective governance mechanism that...

The investment industry was severely affected by the global financial crisis of 2007–2009, and changes will have to occur. In this monograph, investment industry players, observers, recruiters, and academics are asked to offer their opinions and ideas about what they think the most profound...