Financial Market Volatility and Primary
Placements*
Fabrizio Casalinaʌ Enzo Diab
a Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
b Department of Economics, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Abstract
This paper studies empirically the link between financial markets volatil-
ity and primary placements of stocks and bonds for the US economy. We
find that the impact of volatility on primary placements is not statistically
significant.
Keywords: Financial risk; Primary placements
JEL classification: G32
*We thank Jacques Melitz, Luca Stanca and Patrizio Tirelli for useful comments.
^Corresponding author. Tel.: +44-0191-222-6850; Email: fabrizio.casalin@newcastle.ac.uk.
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