Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationships between Middle East stock markets. Design/methodology/approach – Daily data from the Egyptian (CMA) and Israeli Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE-100) stock indices are considered. The paper employs a Bivariate cointegration...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the determinants of bank performance in China. In particular, the paper examines the effects of stock market volatility, competition and ownership on bank performance in China. Design/methodology/approach – The sample comprises a total of 11...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the performance of three alternative value-at-risk (VaR) models to provide suitable estimates for measuring and forecasting market risk. The data sample consists of five international developed and emerging stock market indices over the time...

Purpose – This paper's aim is to test for the presence of fractional integration, or long memory, in the daily returns of the Portuguese stock market using autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average (ARFIMA), generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) and...