1. Consumption insurance and entrepreneurial risk: Evidence from Italian micro-data

   • Carlo Declich
   • Luigi Ventura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 18

2. The reversal of large stock price declines: The case of large firms

   • Georgina Benou
   • Nivine Richie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 38

3. An international study of causality-in-variance: Interest rate and financial sector returns

   • V. T. Alaganar
   • Ramaprasad Bhar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 55

4. Understanding the determinants of sovereign debt ratings: Evidence for the two leading agencies

   • Antonio Afonso

   OriginalPaper Pages: 56 - 74

5. Determinants of credit card delinquency and bankruptcy: Macroeconomic factors

   • Sumit Agarwal
   • Chunlin Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 84

6. The impact of inflationary news on money market yields and volatilities

   • Sanjay Ramchander
   • Marc W. Simpson
   • Mukesh Chaudhry

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 101

7. A disaggregated approach to test the J-Curve phenomenon: Japan versus her major trading partners

   • M. Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
   • Gour G. Goswami

   OriginalPaper Pages: 102 - 113

8. Estimating the sensitivity of state tax revenue to cyclical and wealth effects

   • William Seyfried
   • Louis Pantuosco

   OriginalPaper Pages: 114 - 124