Browsing International Finance by OzU Authors "Akın, Özlem"

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Anticipating the financial crisis: evidence from insider trading in banks

Akın, Özlem; Marín, J. M.; Peydro, J. - L. (Oxford University Press, 2020-04)

Banking crises are recurrent phenomena, often induced by excessive bank risk-taking, which may be due to behavioural reasons (over-optimistic banks neglecting risks) and to conflicts of interest between bank shareholders/managers ...
Political connections and informed trading: Evidence from TARP

Akın, Özlem; Coleman, N. S.; Fons‐Rosen, C.; Peydró, J.-L. (Wiley, 2019)

We study insider trading behavior surrounding the largest bank bailout in history: Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). In politically connected banks, insider buying during the pre-TARP period is associated with increases ...
The real estate and credit bubble: evidence from Spain

Akın, Özlem; Montalvo, J. G.; Villar, J. G.; Peydró, J.-L.; Raya, J. M. (Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-08)

We analyze the determinants of real estate and credit bubbles using a unique borrower-lender matched dataset on mortgage loans in Spain. The dataset contain real estate credit and price conditions (loan principal and spread, ...