Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Finance and Financial Management Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
-
- Affinity Crime (1)
- Asia (1)
- Asian Currency (1)
- Asset allocation (1)
- Bangladesh (1)
-
- Contagion (1)
- Defined contribution plans (1)
- Efficient market hypothesis (1)
- Emotion (1)
- Estimation (1)
- Focused methodology (1)
- Global Economic Crisis (1)
- Gullibility (1)
- Hedge Funds (1)
- Investments (1)
- Liquidity (1)
- Long-term Risk (1)
- Persuasion (1)
- Portfolio Risk (1)
- Retirement (1)
- Securities Market (1)
- Share price (1)
- Stephen Greenspan (1)
- Target Date Funds (1)
- Trust (1)
- United States Stocks (1)
- Volatility (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Finance and Financial Management
Financial Contagion And Market Liquidity: Evidence From The Asian Crisis, Shantaram P. Hegde, Rupendra Paliwal
Financial Contagion And Market Liquidity: Evidence From The Asian Crisis, Shantaram P. Hegde, Rupendra Paliwal
WCBT Faculty Publications
Models of financial crisis and contagion predict that an economic crisis turns into a crisis of market liquidity in the presence of borrowing constraints, information asymmetry and risk aversion. Based on the firm-level data on a sample of exposed and unexposed US stocks to the Asian currency crisis, we find a significant increase (decrease) in the crisis period bid-ask spreads (depth) and their volatilities for both the groups. While our results underscore the imprints of flight to quality, we detect little causal patterns in liquidity innovations. An important implication of our findings, as evidenced by the recent crisis, is that …
The Road To Retirement: Bumpy Or Smooth, Depends On Your Route, Anand Iyer, Madhusudan Subramanian, Vikash Punglia
The Road To Retirement: Bumpy Or Smooth, Depends On Your Route, Anand Iyer, Madhusudan Subramanian, Vikash Punglia
WCBT Faculty Publications
Defined Contribution (DC) plans are rapidly becoming the primary retirement investment vehicle for a majority of employees across the US and other markets around the globe. Asset allocation for DC plans has to strike a balance between growth and protection assets over the savings lifecycle while protecting the long-term purchasing power of the nest egg. Due to the long duration of retirement investing and various risks associated with it, implementing the right asset allocation has become critical and challenging for DC plans. The unique Risk Focused methodology presented in this paper aims to address the shortcomings of conventional Target Date …
The Never Ending Attraction Of The Ponzi Scheme, Pearl Jacobs, Linda Schain
The Never Ending Attraction Of The Ponzi Scheme, Pearl Jacobs, Linda Schain
Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
In the 1920’s, Charles Ponzi engaged in a notorious money making scheme. This scheme had been tried before but no one prior to Charles Ponzi had managed to swindle millions of dollars out of unsuspecting people. Thus, the scheme bears his name. In December 2008, Bernard Madoff, a major Ponzi schemer, was exposed. He managed to con investors out of over $65 billion over a thirty year period. Madoff was a highly respected financial expert. The investors were mostly well educated and supposedly financially savvy. How did this happen? This paper will examine some theories which may help explain both …
Monthly Seasonality In Emerging Market: Evidence From Bangladesh, Lutfur Rahman, Abu S. Amin
Monthly Seasonality In Emerging Market: Evidence From Bangladesh, Lutfur Rahman, Abu S. Amin
WCBT Faculty Publications
The presence of the seasonal anomaly in stock returns has been reported extensively in finance literature. This paper examines the presence of monthly anomaly in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the premier stock exchange of Bangladesh. Data used in the study include daily closing prices of DSE indices such as DSE all share prices index (DSI), DSE general index (DGEN) and DSE 20 index for a period of 01.01.2001-30.06.2010. Several hypotheses have been formulated; those hypotheses have been tested and dummy variable regression was used in the study. The result indicates that May and June returns are positive and statistically significant. …