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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the volatility impacts of the suspension of a call auction system by the … volatility on NSE is compared with that of the Bombay Stock Exchange using two volatility proxies: modulus of log returns and … scaled intra-day price difference. We also focus on conditional volatility by estimating an AGARCH model on seasonally …
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indicated that both the Badla mechanism and the introduction of SSFs seem to have contributed to the higher volatility of the …
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U.S. stocks are more volatile than stocks of similar foreign firms. A firm’s stock return volatility can be higher for … reasons that contribute positively (good volatility) or negatively (bad volatility) to shareholder wealth and economic growth …. We find that the volatility of U.S. firms is higher mostly because of good volatility. Specifically, stock volatility is …
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This paper derives an adjusted Black-Scholes pricing formula. In separating risk and uncertainty using the robust control technique, we find that both uncertainty and risk raise management’s subjective evaluation of real options. We suggest a simple method to filter the risk of the project and...
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We investigate the relation between global FX volatility and the excess returns to carry trade portfolios. We find a … significantly negative return co-movement of high interest rate currencies with global volatility, whereas low interest rate … currencies provide a hedge against volatility shocks. Our main global FX volatility proxy accounts for more than 90% of the …
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Market inefficiency has influence on resource allocation, as price signals tend systematically understate or overstate the effects of information transmitted to the trading parties in the market. In this paper a number of statistical tests employed to assess the weak-form efficiency of Khartoum...
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intraday volatility measurements and implied ones obtained from options market (VIX). For that we propose the use of intraday … information to estimate volatility for the cases where the stock markets do not have an associated option market. …
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Maturity transformation coupled with open foreign exchange positions expose financial intermediaries to unexpected changes in interest and exchange rates. This paper proposes to measure the degree of banks exposure to market risks by taking the variance of the total differential of the bank...
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the effects of oil price, external reserves and interest rate on exchange rate volatility in Nigeria using annual data … exchange rate volatility in Nigeria; which implies that exchange rate is susceptible to changes in oil price. The study … rate volatility significantly in Nigeria. …
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When regulating the financial system, the volatility phenomenon seems to emerge, practically, as a phenomenon which is … volatility of prices and returns. At the same time, the leverage has also got a role at both levels: the capital structure of the … firm and the investors’ strategy. We examine the return and volatility in relation to leverage by considering different …
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