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A comparative analysis of the nature of stock return volatility in BRICS and G7 markets
Muguto, Lorraine; Muzindutsi, Paul-Francois - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-27
growing importance of emerging markets, the literature on the nature of volatility in global markets is typified by … volatility in developed G7 and emerging BRICS markets. Broad market index data and GARCH models over the period 2003 …:01–2020:08 were employed. The study found evidence of volatility persistence, asymmetry, mean reversion and weak evidence of a risk …
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Market quality and short-selling ban during the COVID-19 pandemic : a high-frequency data approach
Ferreruela, Sandra; Martín, Daniel - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 7, pp. 1-29
volatility, but liquidity was reduced; (2) liquidity deterioration affected more the sell than the buy side of the LOB; (3) high …-frequency activity (HFT) diminished during SSR, reinforcing volatility; (4) negative effects on liquidity and HFT diminished and … disappeared as the ban was lifted; (5) HFT unidirectionally Granger causes 1 min realized volatility while the natural logarithm …
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Did politicians use non-public macroeconomic information in their stock trades? : evidence from the STOCK Act of 2012
Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-18
Existing research shows that members of Congress made informed trades prior to the passage of the STOCK Act of 2012. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on non-public information. However, the question of whether...
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On setting day-ahead equity trading risk limits
Fuertes, Ana María; Olmo, Jose - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 9 (2016) 3, pp. 1-20
This paper investigates the information content of the ex post overnight return for one-day-ahead equity Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasting. To do so, we deploy a univariate VaR modeling approach that constructs the forecast at market open and, accordingly, exploits the available overnight...
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The impact of algorithmic trading in a simulated asset market
Mukerji, Purba; Chung, Christine; Walsh, Timothy; Xiong, Bo - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/68, pp. 1-11
In this work we simulate algorithmic trading (AT) in asset markets to clarify its impact. Our markets consist of human and algorithmic counterparts of traders that trade based on technical and fundamental analysis, and statistical arbitrage strategies. Our specific contributions are: (1)...
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Covid-19 and Islamic stock index : evidence of market behavior and volatility persistence
Saleem, Adil; Bárczi, Judit; Sági, Judit - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-22
economic aspects of the world. This study investigated the Islamic stock market's reaction and changes in volatility before and … nine different markets around the globe. To examine changes in volatility and persistence of risk, the generalized … hand, the volatility of Islamic stock indices was substantially amplified after the global health crisis was declared by …
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Quantile risk-return trade-off
Aslanidis, Nektarios; Christiansen, Charlotte; Savva, … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-14
We investigate the risk-return trade-off on the US and European stock markets. We investigate the non-linear risk-return trade-off with a special eye to the tails of the stock returns using quantile regressions. We first consider the US stock market portfolio. We find that the risk-return...
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Evidence of economic policy uncertainty and COVID-19 pandemic on global stock returns
Chiang, Thomas C. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper examines the impact of changes in economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and COVID-19 shock on stock returns. Tests of 16 global stock market indices, using monthly data from January 1990 to August 2021, suggest a negative relation between the stock return and a country’s EPU. Evidence...
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Financial crises, macroeconomic variables, and long-run risk : an econometric analysis of stock returns correlations (2000 to 2019)
Tronzano, Marco - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 3/127, pp. 1-25
This paper focuses on four major aggregate stock price indexes (SP 500, Stock Europe 600, Nikkei 225, Shanghai Composite) and two "safe-haven" assets (Gold, Swiss Franc), and explores their return co-movements during the last two decades. Significant contagion effects on stock markets are...
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Contagion risks in emerging stock markets : new evidence from Asia and Latin America
Thi Bich Ngoc Tran - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 11 (2018) 4, pp. 1-20
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether contagion actually occurred during three well-known financial crises in 1990s and 2000s: Mexican “Tequila” crisis in 1994, Asian “flu” crisis in 1997 and US subprime crisis in 2007. We apply dynamic conditional correlation models...
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