This paper examines global and regional stock market integration in Asia at both the aggregate and disaggregate (industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised as follows. In the pre-2008 crisis period, no...

The eurozone has a single short-term nominal interest rate, but monetary policy conditions measured by real short-term interest rates varied substantially across countries in the period 2003-2010. We use this cross-country variation in the (local) tightness of monetary policy to examine its...

The study evaluates the influence of cash flow on the financial distress of private listed enterprises on the Vietnamese stock market from 2010 to 2020. We use the data collected from the financial statements of 263 private non-financial enterprises listed on the Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi stock...

This paper investigates the co-movement between cryptocurrencies and African stock returns to uncover their degree of association and global portfolio diversification benefits implementing the three-dimensional continuous Morlet wavelet transform technique. Data span 10 August 2015 to 10...

Using daily and monthly MSCI index returns of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) markets for the period 2007 and 2021, this study aims to examine if there are any advantages to diversification in ASEAN markets for Vietnamese investors and if those perks have altered between pre and...

Modelling of conditional volatilities and correlations across asset returns is an integral part of portfolio decision making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations across markets, a trend which has been accentuated...

This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...

This paper investigates persistence in financial time series at three different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly). The analysis is carried out for various financial markets (stock markets, FOREX, commodity markets) over the period from 2000 to 2016 using two different long memory...

This paper is a comprehensive investigation of calendar anomalies in the Ukrainian stock market. It employs various statistical techniques (average analysis, Student's t-test, ANOVA, the Kruskal-Wallis test, and regression analysis with dummy variables) and a trading simulation approach to test...

This study investigates the price movement characteristics of banking issuers listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange with macroeconomic indicators as an exogenous variable. By using the k-means clustering based on the monthly rate of return, banks are classified into three clusters, lower,...