This paper investigates the interdependence of stock returns with some other financial variables applied to several European Telecommunications institutions. In particular, using a multivariate vector autoregressive (VAR) approach this study examines the relation, the direction of the relation,...

The main objective of this study is to examine if the long term financial trends influence not only a stock market's returns, but also the day of the week pattern (DOW). In order to examine the specific issue we try to find a financial market which: (i) presents clear and long-term financial...

In this paper we aim to check whether there is persistence in stock returns generated by companies. The study is carried out on the entire universe of companies in the 28 EU countries. To examine the persistence phenomenon, we develop a new test based on dependency analysis, using...

This paper discusses an empirical analysis of the Expected Downside Risk (EDR) based asset-pricing model on Central and Eastern European and Developed Western European markets. The investigated risk measure applies a nonparametric approach that allows getting rid of any assumption on the...

This work quantifies the financial and macroeconomic effects of the most significant Brexit events from 23 June 2016 up to 31 December 2019 for fifteen economies. The study uses high-frequency data and shows that following the referendum outcome, overall the 10-year government bond yield of the...

In this study, the informational efficiency of the European natural gas market is analyzed by empirically investigating price formation and arbitrage efficiency between spot and futures markets. Econometric approaches are specified that explicitly account for nonlinearities and the low...