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attempts to quantify the impact of STT imposition and subsequent revisions on volatility and trading volume during Oct 2003 …-July 2013. Empirical results show a mixed response of volatility and volume to changes in STT. Even though STT has …
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introduction had on electricity market. The most relevant effect is the reduction of the level of electricity price's volatility … multiple linear regression. Then, to study volatility dynamics, we fit a two-states Markov-switching model to represent a high-volatility … and a low-volatility states of the world. This model highlighted that in both states the level of volatility is lower and …
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In 2005-2006 China reformed its stock market by eliminating non-tradable shares. The regulator set general guidelines and then assigned responsibility for implementation to each company. We derive relations that should have been followed by the prices of stocks and exploit a company-level data...
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Share issue privatization - i.e. privatization on public equity markets - is often claimed to foster stock market development. In this paper, we provide an empirical assessment of this claim, testing the role of privatization on two market liquidity measures in a panel with monthly data of 19...
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We examine the stock price reaction of rival firms to privatization announcements to infer information about industry effects of privatization. We find that the rival firms reacted negatively to privatization announcements, thus suggesting that the announcement effects reflect competitive...
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Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk management in the commodities market. A transaction tax (of 0.01 per cent) on commodity futures trading was introduced in the Union Budget 2013-14. This study examines the rationale...
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We examine whether the option market leads the stock market with respect to positive in addition to negative price discovery. We document that out-of-themoney (OTM) option prices, which determine the Risk-Neutral Skewness (RNS) of the underlying stock return's distribution, can embed positive...
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This paper investigates the forecasting performance of three popular variants of the non-linear GARCH models, namely VS-GARCH, GJR-GARCH and Q-GARCH, with the symmetric GARCH(1,1) model as a benchmark. The application involves ten European stock price indexes. Forecasts produced by each...
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