This study aims to shed light on the risk structure in the presence of Islamic banking, in particular in Turkey. Islamic banking and conventional banking are considered to be different kind of sources for funding. Returns in the conventional banking expected to be heavily influenced by the...

Many studies explain the high volume of trade in stock markets with non-rational trades of individuals. They claim high volume of trading seems to exceed the trading and hedging needs of the investors. Here we analyze the weekly aggregated daily trades in Borsa Ýstanbul (formerly Istanbul Stock...

Many studies explain the high volume of trade in stock markets with non-rational trades of individuals. They claim high volume of trading seems to exceed the trading and hedging needs of the investors. Here we analyze the weekly aggregated daily trades in Borsa Ýstanbul (formerly Istanbul Stock...

This study analyzes the dynamic relationship between exchange rate (against US dollar), interest rate and the stock market (both in local currency) of Turkey from January 2003 to September 2013. In particular, the paper tries to answer if the correlations between these important variables change...

We try to estimate default and deference probabilities of commercial mortgages via an American option pricing framework. In this framework, the borrower is assumed to default either if the price of the real estate drops below the level of the outstanding loan balance or the net operating income...

The excessive use of credit cards and increasing consumer borrowing has been a major problem. Laibson (1997) suggests the present-bias problem as one of the driving forces of excessive bor- rowing. Shefrin and Thaler (1988) suggest that self-control underlies national borrowing/savings rate. We...

This article proposes a new procedure to evaluate Asia Pacic stock market in-terconnections using a dynamic setting. Dynamic Spanning Trees (DST) are constructed using an ARMA-FIEGARCH-cDCC process. The main results show that: 1. The DST significantly shrinks over time; 2. Hong Kong is found to...

We investigate the lead-lag relationship between price movements of single stock futures (SSFs) and spot stock markets in four organized markets, namely, Korea Exchange, National Stock Exchange of India, Warsaw Stock Exchange, and Moscow Exchange. Employing a vector error correction model and...

We aim to determine if sovereign rating assessments (from S&P, Moody's and Fitch) for the advanced emerging Latin American countries (Brazil, Mexico and Chile) have any signicant eect on the correlation between their stock market returns in the last decade. With that purpose in mind, we obtain...

This paper analyses the dynamics of housing market in Turkey using a cointegration analysis. For this purpose a monthly survey is conducted for two years and a “buying index” is formed to measure the housing demand. The housing construction permits data is used to measure the housing supply....