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Long memory in variance or volatility refers to a slow hyperbolic decay in auto-correlation functions of the squared or … log-squared returns. GARCH models extensively used in empirical analysis do not account for long memory in volatility. The … present paper examines the issue of long memory in volatility in the context of Indian stock market using the fractionally …
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The effect of options’ introduction on underlying market is one of the frequently debated themes in financial research. A significant body of literature addresses the question of effects of options’ introduction. The critical review of the literature shows that there is no consensus among...
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Joint dynamics of market index returns, volume traded and volatility of stock market returns can unveil different … dimensions of market microstructure. It can be useful for precise volatility estimation and understanding liquidity of the … Bollerslev (1990), as this method helps in jointly estimating volatility equation of return and volume in one step estimation …
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sector indices from April 2008 to August 2013. The relationship between volatility and information arrival was modelled using … TGARCH. The findings provide strong evidence for the validity of the MDH for the Saudi market. Volatility persistence …, interacting with volatility in a manner anticipated under the MDH. This can be attributed to unique characteristic of the Saudi …
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I analyze a model with heterogeneous investors who have incorrect beliefs about fundamentals. Investors think that they are right at first, but over time realize that they are wrong. The speed of the realization depends on investor confidence in own beliefs and arrival of new information. The...
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The Brazilian capital market has been in the last 10 years a attractive space for negotiations and opening of company’s capital. The early studies of market anomalies that are looking for evidence on reasons of understatement and overstatement at the time of the IPO in Brazil date back to...
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Abstract The financial market is a subset of assets market. Its efficiency is very important for economic development, functioning as a screening institution for investments. The property sector is another group, comprising urban land. Urbanization is unavoidable, but very important for...
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The standard measures of distress risk ignore the fact that firm defaults are correlated and that some defaults are more likely to occur in bad times. We use risk premium computed from corporate credit spreads to measure a firm’s exposure to systematic variation in default risk. Unlike...
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Our paper investigates the symmetry in stock returns of the 30 most liquid companies traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange during 2000 – 2011 and also the most representative 5 market indices. Our daily data shows that skewness estimates are slightly negative for most indices and individual...
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In the 1990s, companies collected billions in premiums from peculiarly structured put options written on their own stock while almost all of these puts expired worthless. Buyers of these options, primarily �nancial intermediaries, lost money as a result. Although these losses might seem...
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