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The research on the distinguishing features of the international financial centers

Kayral, Ihsan Erdem; Karan, Mehmet Baha - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 5, pp. 217-238

Although London appeared as the first international financial center on the world, the number of these kind of centers show a notable increase in the recent years. Those centers are regarded as magnetic places for the economic issues and they also serve as important economic centers. In the...

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The determinants of cash flows in Greek bond mutual funds

Grose, Christos - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 55-77

a crucial factor in investment decision making. Bond mutual funds that invest primarily in government bonds, appear to … commissions, while on the other hand investors that prefer corporate bonds show reduced sensitivity in the commissions charged by … mutual funds. Investors in government bonds increase their investment positions when stock markets experience small or …

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Financial analysis on Indian stock market volatility during recession

Arekar, Kirti; Jain, Rinku - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 127-133

In this article, a snapshot of the market performance during the two-year is presented and compared with the major overseas markets. A study considered a market performance of different sectors i.e. Information Technology and Banking with respect to the market. Further we analyzed that which...

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Is stock always the right choice? : should naive investors avoid stock markets?

Donadelli, Michael - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 93-113

The goal of this paper is to present an original and simple analysis aimed to understand why investing in capital markets can be very dangerous for "naive investors". Stock markets display often exploding volatility. They are characterized by instability and subject to external shocks. If...

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Volatility shifts and persistence in variance : evidence from the sector indices of Istanbul Stock Exchange

Çağlı, Efe Çağlar; Mandacı, Pınar Evrim; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 3, pp. 119-140

This study examines the impact of volatility shifts on volatility persistence for three major sector indices of Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) and ISE National 100 index over the period beginning from 1997 and ending in 2009. The exponential generalized autoregressive conditional...

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Arima-Garch models in estimating market risk using value at risk for the WIG20 index

Makiel, Kamil - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 2, pp. 25-33

This paper determines whether the VaR estimation is influenced by conditional distribution of return rates (normal, t-student, GED) and attempts to choose the model which best estimates VaR on a selected example. We considered logarithmic return rates for the WIG-20 index from 1999-2011. Then,...

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Does subprime crisis affect Chinese stock market returns?

Shi, Kai; Nie, Li - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 163-173

This paper aims at testing the influence of Subprime Crisis on Chinese stock market returns. By means of newly proposed time series spatial analysis methodology, we investigate the dominance behavior of daily returns on both Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index and Shenzhen Stock Exchange...

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An empirical analysis of trading volume and return volatility relationship on Istanbul stock exchange national -100 Index

Oral, Ece - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 5, pp. 149-158

It is a well-known fact that most of the asset returns tend to be skewed and heavytailed. Heavy tailed distributions such as the Student’s t distribution and Stable distribution are commonly used in finance to model asset returns that areheavy tailed. Additionally, Stable distribution allows...

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Problema de calibración de mercado y estructura implícita del modelo de bonos de Black-Cox

Sukhomlin, Nikolay; Santana Jiménez, Lisette Josefina - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 73-98

The main result of this paper consists in the resolution of the inverse problem for the Black-Cox (1976) model, using the method proposed by Sukhomlin (2007). Based on the backward approach, we obtain an exact expression of the implied volatility expressed as a function of quantifiable market...

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Macroeconomic effects on DJSI-World returns

Sariannidis, Nikolaos; Koskosas, Ioannis; Kartalis, Nikos; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 95-110

One of the best known and highly regarded Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) indexes is the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World (D.J.S.I.-World). By using the model of Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH), the relation between D.J.S.I.-World returns to 10 year...

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