Along with price limits and capital requirements, the margin mechanism ensures the integrity of futures markets. Margin committees and brokers in futures markets face a trade‐off when setting the margin level. A high level protects brokers against insolvent customers and thus reinforces market...

Is bitcoin the new digital gold? To answer this question, we investigate the potential benefits of bitcoin during extremely volatile periods. We use the multivariate extreme value theory, which is the appropriate statistical approach to model the tail dependence structure of the return...

We investigate the impact of 2008 global financial crisis due to Lehman Brothers collapse on tail dependence structure of the largest systemic banks in euro in a pairwise comparison using bivariate extreme value theory. The dataset includes banks equity prices from area core (Austria, Belgium,...

Using daily data of the S&P 500 index from 1950 to 2015, we investigate the relation between return and transaction volume in the statistical distribution tails associated with booms and crashes in the US stock market. We use extreme value theory (peaks-over-threshold method) to study the...

Women suffer from glass ceiling barriers to reaching CEO positions. We argue that the stock market reaction to CEO appointments constitutes a barrier that is external to the firm and that is important to understand because investors can influence appointment decisions by buying or selling...

We propose an innovative asymmetric exceedance-time model with optimal thresholds. This model examines the impact of extreme downside and upside shocks and determines how the duration between past and present extreme shocks affects the dependent variable. We use extreme value theory...

Using daily data for eight major cryptocurrencies and bivariate extreme value theory (peaks-over-threshold method), this study examines the extreme dependence between returns and trading volumes in the cryptocurrency market. It is shown that, irrespective of the cryptocurrency under...