Feature Papers on Financial Markets

A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Financial Markets".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4845

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Department of Finance, International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China
Interests: asset pricing with heterogeneous beliefs, learning, and social interactions; nonlinear economic dynamics and financial market modelling; heterogeneous expectations and empirical testing in equity CDS, commodity, and foreign exchange markets; profitability, return predictability, and market sentiment; high frequency trading and learning in limit order markets

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Dear Colleagues,

This Topical Collection “Feature Papers on Financial Markets” collects leading research (original research articles or comprehensive review papers) on all aspects of financial markets. Waivers or discounts on article processing charges (APC) will be granted to high-quality papers submitted to this collection.

Highly experienced practitioners from various fields on financial markets are welcome to contribute papers, highlighting the latest developments in their research area, or a detailed summary of their own work to date.

Potential topics include but are not limited to portfolio optimization, asset management, asset pricing and trading, investment, market microstructure, and their contributions to the stability and operation of securities markets and financial intermediation.

Prof. Dr. Xuezhong (Tony) He
Guest Editor

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The Effect of Industry Restructuring on Peer Firms
by Alex Holcomb and Paul Mason
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(5), 205; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14050205 - 03 May 2021
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We study the bond price reaction of a merged firms peers, in order to better understand how the market responds to a restructuring. We argue that a merger announcement may signal the possibility of a merger wave to the industry, and in doing [...] Read more.
We study the bond price reaction of a merged firms peers, in order to better understand how the market responds to a restructuring. We argue that a merger announcement may signal the possibility of a merger wave to the industry, and in doing so, increase the conditional probability that peer firms might themselves be acquired in the future. However, while peer firm equity holders expect a direct benefit from a potential acquisition—in the form of a price premium—peer firm bond holders can only expect an indirect benefit—in the form of a risk reduction. Consistent with these hypotheses, we show that price reactions are stronger for firms that have a higher unconditional probability of being acquired ex-ante. In addition, we document that, cross-sectionally, the abnormal returns we observe from peer bondholders are concentrated among firms that have the highest expected risk reduction benefit from a potential acquisition. In order to distinguish a potential reduction in risk as the explicit return driver, we show that abnormal bond returns within firm (between different bond issues) are also concentrated among issues that have the highest expected risk reduction benefit. Full article
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Performance Dynamics of International Exchange-Traded Funds
by Stephen Bahadar, Christopher Gan and Cuong Nguyen
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(8), 169; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm13080169 - 01 Aug 2020
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Asynchronous trading hours between the markets of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and their benchmarks not only make it difficult to apply a full replication strategy but also make the creation/redemption process ineffective and consequently distress the performance of international ETFs. Despite the exponential growth [...] Read more.
Asynchronous trading hours between the markets of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and their benchmarks not only make it difficult to apply a full replication strategy but also make the creation/redemption process ineffective and consequently distress the performance of international ETFs. Despite the exponential growth of the ETF industry in general and international ETFs in particular, the performance of international ETFs is under-researched. Therefore, this study evaluates the performance of US-listed international ETFs by analyzing the returns, volatilities, tracking ability and pricing efficiency. The study findings are useful for investors interested in understanding the performance dynamics of international ETFs. Full article
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