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We study the effect of COVID-19 containment measures on expected stock price volatility in some advanced economies …-month-ahead volatility indices dropped following announcements of initial or re-imposed lockdowns, and that they did not drop significantly … following the easing of lockdowns. Such patterns are not as strong for three-month-ahead expected volatility and generally …
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Our paper examines the effect of oil price changes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets using nonlinear smooth transition regression (STR) models. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our empirical results reveal that GCC stock markets do not have similar sensitivities to oil price...
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This paper examines volatility spillovers from mature to emerging stock markets and tests for changes in the …
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pricing securities, and the relationship between returns and conditional volatility. GARCH(p,q)-M models estimated for the … returns to exhibit volatility clustering; and a significant positive link between risk and returns, which was significantly …
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This paper, using T-GARCH models, finds that the United States has been the major source of price and volatility … ""stock market correction"" period. There is also evidence of structural breaks in the stock price and volatility dynamics …
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This paper studies the role of insider trading in explaining cross-country differences in stock market volatility. The … controls for liquidity/maturity of the market and the volatility of the underlying fundamentals (volatility of real output and …
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, although this lack of market depth did reduce in severity for Turkey over the sample period, as liberalization of financial …
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Despite concerns are often voiced on the so called “excess volatility” of the stock market, little is known about the … implications of market volatility for the real economy. This paper examines whether the stock market volatility affects real fixed … investment. The empirical evidence obtained from the US data shows that market volatility has independent effects on investment …
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This paper examines the evidence for the common assertion that the volatility of emerging stock markets has increased … as a result of the liberalization of markets. A range of measures suggests that there has been no generalized increase in … volatility in recent years; indeed, it appears that volatility may have tended to fall rather than rise on average. The paper …
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Using a new daily index of social unrest, we provide systematic evidence on the negative impact of social unrest on stock market performance. An average social unrest episode in an typical country causes a 1.4 percentage point drop in cumulative abnormal returns over a two-week event window....
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