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Enforcing IPR through informal institutions: The possible role of religion in fighting software piracy
Elbialy, Nora; Gouda, Moamen - 2011
violations are unethical. Religion can be considered an informal institution that might support or hinder formal laws issued with … adherence to religion is found. As the Religion-Loyalty Index (RLI) developed by this study shows, Muslim countries have the … piracy is conducted. As Islam generally prohibits IPR piracy, a set of policy recommendations based on new institutional …
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European Securitisation: A GARCH Model of CDO, MBS and Pfandbrief Spreads
Jobst, Andreas A. - 2003
Asset-backed securitisation (ABS) is an asset funding technique that involves the issuance of structured claims on the cash flow performance of a designated pool of underlying receivables. Efficient risk management and asset allocation in this growing segment of fixed income markets requires...
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Deterministic Seasonal Volatility in a Small and Integrated Stock Market: The Case of Sweden.
Berg, Lennart - 2000
Using daily data for the Swedish stock market for almost the last two decades no distinct and firm deterministic seasonal pattern for the conditional volatility for the Swedish stock market has been found. The daily turnover in the Swedish stock market has an impact on and eliminates to some...
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Forecasting volatility in European stock markets with non-linear GARCH models
Forte, Gianfranco; Manera, Matteo - 2002
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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Forecasting volatility under fractality, regime-switching, long memory and student-t innovations
Lux, Thomas; Morales-Arias, Leonardo - 2009
We examine the performance of volatility models that incorporate features such as long (short) memory, regime-switching and multifractality along with two competing distributional assumptions of the error component, i.e. Normal vs Student-t. Our precise contribution is twofold. First, we...
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Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets
Pollard, Stephen K.; Sapra, Sunil K.; Canarella, Giorgio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-12, pp. 1-52
In this paper we examine the issue of asymmetry in the return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity market into the Canadian and Mexican equity markets. We model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three markets using the asymmetric power model of Ding, Granger...
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Stock market comovements in Central Europe: Evidence from asymmetric DCC model
Gjika, Dritan; Horváth, Roman - 2012
We examine time-varying stock market comovements in Central Europe employing the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation multivariate GARCH model. Using daily data from 2001 to 2011, we find that the correlations among stock markets in Central Europe and between Central Europe vis-a-vis the...
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Asymmetry in volatility: A comparison of developed and transition stock markets
Wdowiński, Piotr; Malecka, Marta - 2010
ARCH modelling framework of Engle (1982) and its GARCH generalization of Bollerslev (1986) gave a huge impetus to econometric model building in the field of financial time series with time-varying variance. The main idea of the models was to describe the most typical features of capital markets...
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Common influences, spillover and integration in Chinese stock markets
Weber, Enzo; Zhang, Yanqun - 2008
The Chinese stock market features an interesting history of divided market segments: domestic (A), foreigners' (B) and overseas (H). This puts forth questions of market integration as well as cross-divisional information transmission. We address these issues in a structural DCC framework, an...
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Testing for convergence in stock markets: a non-linear factor approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, … - 2009
This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...
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