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This paper challenges the existing literature examining the impact of the introduction of index futures trading on the volatility of its underlying. To overcome econometric shortcomings of previously published work using the dummy variable approach, we employ a Markov-switching-GARCH technique....
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This paper investigates the predictive power of stock market returns in January for the subsequent eleven months' returns across 19 countries, thereby contributing to the literature on stock market seasonalities. Only two out of 19 countries' stock markets exhibit a robust Other January Eect. In...
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This paper investigates the impact of introducing index futures trading on the volatility of the underlying stock market. We exploit a unique institutional setting in which presumably uninformed individuals are the dominant trader type in the futures markets. This enables us to investigate the...
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Previous literature on price discovery in stock index futures and spot markets neglects the role of different investor groups. This study relates time‐varying spot‐futures linkages studied within a VECM‐DCC‐GARCH framework to changes in the investor structure of the futures market over...
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This study investigates the impact of introducing index futures trading on the volatility of the underlying stock market. We exploit a unique institutional setting in which presumably uninformed individuals are the dominant trader type in the futures markets. This enables us to investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198318
Vorteilhaftigkeit des börslichen Abendhandels aus Anlegersicht In dieser Studie werden die Effekte der Vorverlegung des Handelsschlusses im elektronischen deutschen Börsenhandelssystem Xetra am 3. November 2003 von 20.00 Uhr auf 17.30 Uhr auf den nicht-anonymen Parketthandel der Frankfurter...
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Diese Dissertation liefert empirische Evidenz zum Investitionsverhalten von Privatanlegern. Es wird oft angenommen, dass Privatanleger schlechter informiert sind und deshalb weniger rational handeln als institutionelle Investoren. Die empirischen Befunde sind jedoch gemischt. Während der...
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This paper examines individual investors' trading behaviour by testing the presence of Monday and January anomalies on the Polish futures market, where individuals are the predominant trader type. Both anomalies are well established in the literature, and they are at least partially attributed...
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This paper contributes to the debate about the relative qualities of floor and electronic trading systems by analysing the effects of bringing forward the Xetra closing time from 8:00 pm to 5:30 pm in November 2003, while the Frankfurt floor remains open until 8:00 pm. This natural experiment...
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