This paper examines the conditional volatility and return linkages for the equity markets of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman over the period 2005-2012. To this end, we employ a multivariate model with time varying conditional...

The paper applies Markov Regime Switching Model (MRSM) to investigate the volatility behaviour of seventeen OECD stock markets (U.S.A, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Australia, Japan) for the period 2004-2010. The results distinguish between...

This paper casts the opportunity set hedging demand in terms of the certainty equivalent of wealth for an investor who considers both consumption and bequest motives and is constrained to invest his asset proportions of wealth in a convex set. We show that the hedge portfolio exactly balances...

This paper examines the information transmission between stocks and their corresponding deposit receipts (DRs) by collecting samples with good reputations and high liquidity in both markets. Using eight years of daily panel data from six cross-listed Taiwanese firms, our results show the...

In this paper we study Norwegian rights issues with focus on the announcement effects of raising seasoned equity. The abnormal returns at announcement in Norway are around −8% to −10% for rights issues, and this is much higher than what is found in other countries. The average...

Studies on real estate economics neglected the relationship between hedonic prices and capitalization rate, thus considering the hedonic models and the income approach as two separate and alternative appraisal methods. In this short theoretical paper we show that integration is possible and...

This article assesses the ability of flexible dynamic correlation specifications to improve asset allocation decisions. To that end, we use the recently proposed Rotated Dynamic Conditional Correlation (RDCC) model that enables the estimation of models with high degree of parameterization and...

In this study, we use panel cointegration methods to investigate the relationship between stock prices and earnings-per-share (EPS). Furthermore, we consider whether stock prices respond to EPS under the different level of growth rate of operating revenue. The empirical result indicated that the...

Gender differences in risk-taking and investment decisions have been widely documented in the financial markets. Utilizing trading information from individual investor brokerage accounts, this paper explores the effects of aging on gender differences in terms of portfolio turnover and returns....

This paper considers an environment where investors have limited knowledge of true systematic risks and therefore continuously re-estimate the forecasting model that they use to form expectations. Based on a parsimonious specification with learning and no conditioning information, I extract...