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Despite extensive research to explore the channels through which environmental policy stringency can affect economy, to our best knowledge, current literature has not yet studied its impact on financial development in the long term. To fill this void, the current study empirically examines the effect of environmental policy stringency index on financial development index and its components, which are financial institutions development index and financial markets development index, in 27 OECD countries during the period 1990–2015. We find a positive association between environmental policy stringency index and financial development. The results also revealed that the past values of environmental policy stringency index can help to predict financial development index and financial institutions development index. These results imply that financial development is a new channel through which increasing environmental policy stringency could promote economic growth. Moreover, these findings show that environmental policy stringency forms a new positive determinant of financial institutions development in OECD countries.

This paper attempts to quantify the short-term impact of takeover rumors on target stock prices. The study was conducted on the French stock market between 1997 and 2011 and concerns 200 rumors that appeared in the media (news agencies, newspapers, and Web sites). Our results show that this particular kind of information has a significant impact on the prices of target companies around and after the date of rumor appearance. The best performance of target shares is observed 50 days after the dissemination of the rumors in the media, with an average return of 4%. This performance is mainly explained by three components:  credibility, rumor characteristics, and the anticipated effects of the takeover bid.