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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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equity, and/or cross-listing in major world stock markets. Using a large sample of 39,517 firms from 111 countries covering …
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This paper revisits the relative importance of global versus country-specific factors underlying stock returns. It constructs a new firm level data set covering emerging and developed markets and estimates a simple factor model, which breaks down stock returns into a global business cycle...
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This paper analyzes the evolution of volatility and cross-country comovement in output, consumption, and investment … fluctuations using two distinct datasets. The results suggest that there has been a significant decline in the volatility of …. However, for emerging market economies, financial globalization appears to have been associated, on average, with an increase …
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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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The issue of informational efficiency in the evolution of asset prices is examined using data on equity markets in Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan over the period 1986–93. The analysis is carried out in two steps. The parameters of agents’ dynamic consumption and investment decisions are first...
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