The financial market always increases or decreases due to some information. At present, stock markets have been showing extremely unpredictable movement, which is only due to new pieces of information, and news or events. The economy of any country is evaluated by the stock market and this stock...

This paper examines the empirical relationship among stock return, trading volume and volatility for the seven stock markets that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council. The dataset includes seven national stock markets for the period spanning from 1 July 2004 to 3 September 2008. Granger...

This paper empirically examines the inflation-hedging property of an emerging stock market, Malaysia, for full sample (1988–2008), pre-crisis sample (1988–1996) and post-crisis sample (1999–2008) by means of asymmetric cointegration and asymmetric error-correction modelling....

The aim of our research was to construct a multi-criteria model for rational investors at bear capital markets. This model should help individual investors in decision-making processes to select optimal stocks portfolios. Applying multi-criteria decision aid methods, three features of stocks...

Examining US data, this study uses techniques of cointegration analysis to test whether real estate investment trusts (REITs) are a useful hedge against inflation. Johansen tests seem to indicate that REITs are cointegrated with the general price level. This is true for a broad REIT index as...

This paper investigates the impact of stock market development, money supply and inflation on economic growth in India during the post-globalisation era of the 1990s, especially during the period from 1994 to 2012. Using autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach, the study...

This paper assesses the evolving efficiency status of Southeast Asian (SEA) 'tiger cub' stock markets. The weak-form efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is examined using daily price index data and variance ratio tests from 2000 to 2012. We also explore two diverse sub-periods of economic activity...

This paper examines the efficiency of Indian stock market by using daily closing price of BSE SENSEX from August 2002 to March 2011. The study has used unit root test, autocorrelation test, runs test, GARCH (symmetric) EGARCH and TARCH (asymmetric) models to determine the random walk behaviour...

This study sets out to identify the trading patterns of foreign investors versus those of Qatar's domestic counterparts. Specifically, two chief issues are addressed. First, whether the buyside and sellside behaviours of individual and institutional foreign investor groups are different from...

In this study we investigate the return-implied volatility relationship in the French market by considering the behavioural biases of representativeness, extrapolation and affect. We find a strong evidence of negative and asymmetric return-implied volatility relationship at daily frequency,...