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The effect of options’ introduction on underlying market is one of the frequently debated themes in financial research. A significant body of literature addresses the question of effects of options’ introduction. The critical review of the literature shows that there is no consensus among...
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Many interdisciplinary studies of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis examine the causes of crisis, corporate governance and firm value, stock market efficiency, new firm registration, macroeconomic performance, and compare this crisis to previous crises. However, we do not find conceptual...
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This paper investigates the main features of stock market volatility in the emerging markets of European transition … daily return volatility. The main findings are fourfold. First, in all the six markets, volatility exhibits significant … conditional heteroskedasticity and non–linearity. Second, volatility seems to be of a persistent nature; however, no asymmetric …
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This paper examines the impact of MIB30 Index Futures on the volatility of the Italian Stock Exchange. The results … suggest that the onset of futures trading may have led to diminished daily volatility. They also suggest that the nature of … the volatility itself has not changed between the pre-futures and post-futures periods although a lower volatility is …
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-chasing, prices became less informative, and short-term price volatility increased. Overall, the pricing efficiency benefits of short …
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We analyse daily lead-lag patterns in US equity and credit default swap (CDS) returns. We first document that equity returns robustly lead CDS returns. However, we find that the CDS-lag is due to <I>common</I> (and not firm-specific) news and arises predominantly in response to <I>positive</I> (instead of...</i></i>
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A number of recent theoretical studies have explored trading in fragmented markets, e.g. Biais et al. (2000), a phenomenon increasingly witnessed in modern markets. The key assumption generating the results is that there is at least one liquidity demander exploiting access to all markets by...
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This paper makes indirect inference about the time-variation in expected stock returns by comparing unconditional sample variances to estimates of expected conditional variances. The evidence reveals more predictability as more information is used, and no evidence that predictability has...
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This paper examines the dynamics of returns and order imbalances across the KOSPI 200 cash, futures and option markets. The information effect is more dominant than the liquidity effect in these markets. In addition, returns have more predictability power for the future movements of prices than...
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volatility, yet remains a favorite within the global investors' portfolio. The paper suggests several insights, both from …
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