Purpose – The paper aims to study the impact of the introduction of Nifty index futures on the volatility of the Indian spot markets by use of econometric models. Design/methodology/approach – The study considered six measures of volatility, the dynamic linear regression model, and the GARCH...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a widespread idea in the financial literature: information in financial markets is free. Indeed, whenever an investor wants to intervene to purchase and/or to sell, he/she faces the need to access the information, which he/she judges to ensure...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between the Indian capital markets and key macroeconomic variables such as interest rates, inflation rate, exchange rates and gross domestic savings (GDS) of Indian economy. Design/methodology/approach – Quarterly...

Purpose – The paper aims to test the rational-expectations hypothesis using data from the Chinese stock market. Design/methodology/approach – The rational-expectations hypothesis plays a critical role in economic and financial studies. However, it is unclear whether this hypothesis is...

Purpose – In this paper, it is set out a hybrid data analysis method based on the combination of wavelet techniques and principal-components regression (PCR). The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamics of the stock returns within the French stock market. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of the cross-market transmission mechanism for terrorist shocks, focusing on two major terrorist events and 68 national stock markets. Design/methodology/approach – The paper generates daily abnormal returns from a...

Purpose – Conventional wisdom states that catastrophe risk securities show no or little correlation with stock and bond markets, and offer significant attractions to investors providing a good diversification of risks. This study examines the correlation between catastrophe risk securities and...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of interval measured data, rather than traditional point data, on economic variability studies. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses interval measured data to forecast the variability of future stock market changes....