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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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The methodology matters : what influences market reaction, and post-issue returns in seasoned equity offerings?
Krishnan, C. N. V.; Wu, Minghao - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 10, pp. 1-18
Using a large database of U.S. seasoned equity offering (SEO) announcements from 2010 to 2015, we examine the effects of several explanatory variables-firm specific, macroeconomic, fixed income, and stock market variables-on the announcement period abnormal stock returns and on the longer-run...
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Call me when you grow up : firms' age, size, and IPO performance across sectors
Siev, Smadar; Qadan, Mahmoud - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 12, pp. 1-22
We provide a fresh look at the performance of the stock prices of firms that launched an IPO between 2009 and 2019 and assess the role of their size, age and sector in affecting future performance. We utilize data about 1611 IPOs spanning 11 economic sectors using the event study method. We...
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Book-to-market decomposition, net share issuance, and the cross section of global stock returns
Blackburn, Douglas W.; Cakici, Nusret - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/90, pp. 1-29
This paper provides global evidence supporting the hypothesis that expected return models are enhanced by the inclusion of variables that describe the evolution of book-to-market-changes in book value, changes in price, and net share issues. This conclusion is supported using data representing...
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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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Stock market volatility response to COVID-19 : evidence from Thailand
Suthasinee Suwannapak; Surachai Chancharat - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 12, pp. 1-9
This study investigated how stock market volatility responded dynamically to unexpected changes during the COVID-19 … pandemic and the resulting uncertainty in Thailand. Using a multivariate GARCH-BEKK model, the conditional volatility dynamics …, the interlinkages, and the conditional correlations between stock market volatility and the increasing rate of COVID-19 …
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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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Time-varying risk and the relation between idiosyncratic risk and stock return
Fu, Chengbo - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 9, pp. 1-16
This paper studies the historical time-varying dynamics of risk for individual stocks in the U.S. market. Total risk of an individual stock is decomposed into two components, systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk, and both components are studied separately. We start from the historical trend in...
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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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An investigation of the beta anomaly in emerging markets : a South African case
Segojane, Mabekebeke; Ndlovu, Godfrey - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 5, pp. 1-18
only determinant of risk in the South African stock market. We also found positive beta-idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL …
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