{"title":"Gender Gap in Personal Bankruptcy Risks: Empirical Evidence from Singapore","authors":"Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, T. Sing, Jian Zhang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2340371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2340371","url":null,"abstract":"Using a unique dataset that merges bankruptcy and motor events with personal data in Singapore, this study finds significant evidence of gender gap in personal bankruptcy risk. We show that the women’ odds in bankruptcy events is 28% of the men’s odds controlling for demographic, housing types and spatial fixed effects. The gender gap is not race-neutral. We find that the gender effect is stronger in Chinese’s bankruptcy events, but weaker in Malay and Indian bankruptcy events, relative to the bankruptcy events in the control group (“other” race). The gender gap is also observed in multiple bankruptcy events and bankruptcy claim amounts. We use motor accident events as an instrument for risk-taking, and find similar evidence of the gender gap in bankruptcy events. Bankruptcy risks of debtors with past motor accident records are significantly higher than those without past motor accident records. The gender gap in bankruptcy risk has important implications for credit modelling and risk pricing in the finance and economic literature.","PeriodicalId":291168,"journal":{"name":"Capital Markets 3","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131637059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Currency Appreciation Shocks and Shareholder Wealth Creation in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions","authors":"Chen Lin, Micah S. Officer, Beibei Shen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2303630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2303630","url":null,"abstract":"Using a comprehensive sample of cross-border mergers, we find that acquirers from countries experiencing large currency appreciations realize higher abnormal announcement stock returns during both the announcement period and the post-merger period. Importantly, this shareholder wealth creation effect mainly comes from those acquirers in countries with strong shareholder rights and those acquirers with better corporate governance. We further find that acquirers from countries with weak shareholder rights tend to overpay a foreign target following a currency appreciation. Collectively, this evidence suggests that the interaction of currency appreciation and agency conflicts plays an important role in acquirer shareholder value creation.","PeriodicalId":291168,"journal":{"name":"Capital Markets 3","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127196486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asset Allocation: Analysis of Theory and Practice in the Australian Investment Management Industry","authors":"Lujer Santacruz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2482173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2482173","url":null,"abstract":"Asset allocation is the decision on how much of the investment portfolio to place in each of the broad asset classes (e.g. cash, fixed interest securities, property, equities). It is a key decision area in the investment management industry, where professional investors manage pooled investments. The present research aims to examine any dichotomy between theory and practice of asset allocation in the Australian investment management industry. Studying asset allocation theory and practice in relation to one another may lead to finding ways to improve both. The present research identifies gaps between theory and practice and the reasons for their existence and make recommendations that may help reduce the gap. It surveys the available body of research on Modern Portfolio Theory from the seminal Markowitz mean-variance formulation to subsequent research strands. The present research utilises a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the level of awareness and usage of asset allocation theories and theory-based methods among investment management industry practitioners.","PeriodicalId":291168,"journal":{"name":"Capital Markets 3","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121213933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empirical Evidence of Co-Movements between China and Global Stock Markets","authors":"T. Chiang, L. Lao, Qingfeng Xue","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2311706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2311706","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the dynamic correlations between Chinese stock return and global markets at both market and sectoral levels. Statistics suggest that stock-return correlations across markets are time-varying and display structural breaks. The evidence indicates that the stock returns of financial sector exhibit the highest correlation across countries among 10 sectors. Low correlations present in Health Cares, Telecommunications, and Utilities sectors. The correlations tied closely with geographic location – the correlation with Hong Kong is highest followed by South Koran, Japan, Europe and US markets. The time-series stock-return correlations are positively correlated with the conditional variance and variance premiums.","PeriodicalId":291168,"journal":{"name":"Capital Markets 3","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133031455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}