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The credit crisis roiling the world's financial markets will likely take years and entire careers to fully understand and analyze. A short empirical investigation of the current trends, however, demonstrates that the losses in certain markets, in this case the US equity markets, follow a cascade...
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This paper models and forecasts volatility (conditional variance) on the Ghana Stock Exchange using a random walk (RW … the dynamics of the Ghana stock market volatility over a 10-year period. The competing volatility models were estimated … nonlinearity diagnostic checks. The DSI exhibits the stylized characteristics such as volatility clustering, leptokurtosis and …
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return volatility. Besides, the increases in the STT rate have mixed effects on market efficiency, either improving or …
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This article validates the chaotic behavior in the Argentinean, Brazilian, Canadian, Chilean, American, Peruvian and Mexican Stock Markets using the MERVAL, BOVESPA, S&P TSX COMPOSITE, IPSA, IGPA, S&P 500, DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS, NASDAQ, IGBVL and IPC Stock Indexes respectively. The results of...
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Return and volatility spillover among Indian stock market with that of 12 other developed and emerging Asian countries … possibility of stock market integration and volatility spillover among India and its major Asian counterparties. Apart from …, stock markets in Pakistan and Sri Lanka are found to be strongly influenced by movements in Indian market. Though most of …
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We examine whether hedging effectiveness is affected by asymmetry in the return distribution by applying tail specific metrics to compare the hedging effectiveness of short and long hedgers using Oil futures contracts. The metrics used include Lower Partial Moments (LPM), Value at Risk (VaR) and...
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Using 482 US Dollar and Euro denominated bonds issued by 72 sovereigns, we examine the dynamic sources of time-series and cross-sectional variations in \textit{market-wide liquidity} of sovereign bonds as a novelty in the sovereign fixed income literature. Vector autoregression analysis shows...
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volatility. Such changes are the expression of investor’s uncertainty in regard to the market’s dynamics and lead to systematic … the aftermath of financial crisis. The methodology consists in the estimation of the so called intrinsic volatility in … index daily data, during pre and current crisis period. Also, it is a study on the structural changes in this volatility …
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This paper seeks empirical evidence of nonlinear mean-reversion in relative national stock price indices for Emerging Asian countries. It is well known that conventional linear unit root tests suffer from low power against the stationary nonlinear alternative. Implementing the nonlinear unit...
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Financial integration among economies has the benefit of improving allocative efficiency and diversifying risk. However the recent global financial crisis, considered as the worst since the Great Depression has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its...
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