Vol. 2 No. 1 (2010): Banking and Finance Review

The Performance of Merger/Risk Arbitrage and Sweetened Offers in Hostile Takeovers

Ben Branch, Taewon Yang

A Comparison of the Determinants of Stock Returns in the 1987 and 2008 Stock Market Meltdowns

Jia Wang, Gulser Meric, Zugang Liu, Ilhan Meric

Value at Risk under Jump GARCH Processes

Ghulam Sorwar, Giovanni Barone-Adesi

Corporate Governance Productivity Index in Banking Industry: Evidence from the European Banking Industry

Nizar Hachicha, Bilel Jarraya

Banks, Risk, and the Business Cycle: An Analysis Based on Real-Time Data

Renatas Kizys, Christian Pierdzioch

Some Pedagogical Pitfalls in the Definitions of Arbitrage, Hedging and Speculation

Imad Moosa

Currency Option Pricing and Realized Volatility

Meher Manzur, Ariful Hoque, Geoff Poitras

Casual Relation among Different Size of Stock Returns, Interest Rates, Real Activity and Inflation

Moade Shubita, Adel Al-Sharkas