This paper examines the weak form of informational efficiency for of three major capital markets, namely United Kingdom, United States of America and Japan. Results are obtained for DJI, FTSE 100 and NIKKEI 225 indexes, over a span time from 1995 to 2010. Our analysis uses the so called...

Informational efficiency of capital markets has been the subject of numerous empirical studies. Intensive research of the field is justified by the important implications of the knowledge of the of informational efficiency level in the financial practice. Empirical studies that have tested the...

The article analyses the real estate market in Ukraine from the point of view of the concept of financial markets on the basis of the dynamics of average prices on housing habitations, profitability and chain indices with the annual lag. It reveals that there is no sufficient basis for the real...

Проанализирован рынок недвижимости Украины с точки зрения концепции финансовых рынков на основе динамики средних цен на жилье, доходностей и цепных индексов с...

This paper employs Granger causality tests to identify the impacts of historical information from global financial markets on their current levels in 30-day windows. The dataset consists primarily of the daily index levels of the (1) open, (2) close, (3) intra-day high, (4) intra-day low, and...

Seit dem Einbruch der Aktienmärkte Anfang 2000 hat die Fed durch massive Liquiditätszufuhr versucht, die amerikanische Wirtschaft zu stabilisieren. Ein wesentliches Motiv war die Befürchtung, die amerikanische Wirtschaft könne in eine Liquiditätsfalle geraten. Motiviert von der...

Parallel zu der Abwertung des Yen von November 1988 (120,67 Y/$) bis April 1990 (160,35 Y/$), fielen die Aktienkurse an der Börse von Tokyo. Die Bank von Japan hat in dieser Zeit durch fünf Diskontsatzerhöhungen den japanischen Zins dem internationalen Niveau angenähert. Der sogenannte...

This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data on 37 countries from 1996–2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market (1) during the financial crisis; (2) in countries that have more credit provided...

Better developed legal and political institutions result in greater availability of reliable firm-specific information. When stock prices reflect more firm-specific information there will be less stock price synchronicity. This paper traces the experience of China, an economy undergoing dramatic...

This study examines the extent to which stock prices comove in an emerging economy, India. We first document that stocks listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) comove. Further, we find that synchronicity is positively associated with growth and earnings volatility and negatively associated...