The credit risk on the bond market is characterized by the possible default of a counterparty, but also by changes in the spread following a perceived deterioration, by the market, of the credit quality of the issuer. This thesis focuses on credit spreads on corporate bond market in euros....

Many studies have investigated how markets react to the change of conventional market index composition. Nevertheless, how investors in emerging markets react to changes to an Islamic Index composition still needs to be answered. This study empirically investigates market responses to...

The accession to the European Union has had a significant impact on the Romanian capital market. In this paper are presented some aspects of the capital market which are influenced by the mentioned event, such as a harmonized legislation with EU legislation and restructured capital market...

Previous studies have used the stock market approach to find the aggregate number of (firms with) foreign exchange exposures in a given country, region, or industry. Methodologies have differed in many aspects but two of the most basic differences relate to observation frequency and the choice...

Indian share market has never been like this. Market indexes have appreciated in an unprecedented manner since June 2006 and are creating new records of attaining altitudes that were beyond dreams a couple of years back. Media and Government never give up the opportunity of going gala over new...

In a static exchange economy, when all the endowments are issued as securities on a stock exchange, Pareto optimal allocations may be reached by trading options on the market index (see Breeden and Litzenberger (1978)). We extend this result when some of the risks cannot be exchanged on the...

The authors use a variance ratio test to test the weak form of market efficiency as regards capital markets in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and in the United States. Market efficiency was tested using weekly and monthly values of relevant market indices in a period from 1993...

In Turkey, in recent years, capital market is constantly continued to develop in the Turkish stock exchange, representing the market index has reached very high levels. Market index, it changes in all the sectors of the same sensitivity reaction. The purpose of this study, Borsa İstanbul...

Since its introduction fifteen years ago, minimal spanning tree has become an indispensible tool in econophysics. It is to filter the important economic information contained in a complex system of financial markets’ commodities. Here we show that, in general, that tool is not optimal in terms...

Index value is mainly reflected by stock prices related to companies listed in the market, as stock market index fluctuate in accordance to the change of stocks` prices pertaining to the index. Index is affected by domestic economic events as well as international effect. This study is an...