This study uses a special data set, derived from member brokers’ transactions, as a proxy for big players’ trading. Big players as represented by this variable include institutional, big individual and foreign traders, and these groups are not mutually exclusive. The interaction between big...

This paper analyzes the impact of political risk on foreign investors' trading in emerging stock markets, market-wide and for industry portfolios, using quantified political risk ratings reported in the <i>International Country Risk Guide</i> and foreign flows data compiled by the Istanbul Stock...

This paper proposes an ideal specification for studying joint dynamics of emerging stock and foreign exchange markets, and applies it on European emerging markets where this interaction is of particular significance due to large external deficits. Results show that global developed and emerging...

Hau and Rey (2006) explain a surprising negative correlation between the stock market and home currency by rebalancing action taken by unhedged international equity investors. Foreign investor flows data from Greece with a nationality-breakdown permit a unique empirical test of the key...

Testing short-horizon technical trend-following rules, including the first comprehensive evidence on the relatively-neglected MACD rule, on a large panel of world stock market indexes, we investigate the determinants of technical trading rule profitability. The main driver of trend-following...

This paper introduces a new method for identifying the simultaneity between returns and trading flows. The proposed method enables us to identify the intraday interaction using daily data, and provides measures of the information content of trading flows, and their instantaneous response to...