This study examined the relationship between the board characteristics and stock performance of commercial banks. Our analysis is based on a sample of 65 banks across 10 MENA countries and their quantitative data extracted between 2013 and 2022. This research employed pooled OLS, and fixed and...

Portfolio sorting is ubiquitous in the empirical finance literature, where it has been widely used to identify pricing anomalies in different asset classes. Despite the popularity of portfolio sorting, little attention has been paid to the statistical properties of the procedure or to the...

We propose new generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators for the number of latent factors in linear factor models. The estimators are appropriate for data with a large (small) number of cross-sectional observations and a small (large) number of time series observations. The estimation...

Fractal Analysis assesses the fractal characteristics of data. It consists of several methods to assign a fractal dimension and other fractal characteristics in a data set which may be a theoretical data set or a pattern of signals extracted from phenomena including natural geometric objects,...

The unique characteristics of Chinese stock markets give rise to the difficulty of assuming innovation distributions and the specification form of the volatility process when modelling volatility with the parametric GARCH family models. This paper examines the Chinese stock market volatility and...

Purpose - This article aims to present a new strategy of portfolio selection.Design/methodology/approach - After having made a comparative survey of different strategies of portfolio selection adopted by portfolio managers in Tunisia, we propose a new strategy, which we call weighted...

The financial market interest several researchers, especially in the domain of assessment of the financial assets and their performances. The previous research identified several anomalies of the market, as size, Monday, January, PER effects, etc. putting in question the notion of market...

The stock market capitalization of emerging market economies increased from $171 billion in 1986 to $1.9 trillion in 1995 (Gay, 2008). Over the next ten years it grew to $5 trillion in 2005 (Yartey, 2008). A transition towards deregulation of the economy and privatization of state-owned...

This paper presents a new technique for the empirical analysis of some capital market ratios and stock valuation. We first show how capital market ratios (such as the price to earning ratio) can be plotted in a constructed stock valuation box. Within the box we can also plot the contours of...

This study is conducted to find if there is an existence of volatility persisting in any of the market capitalization indices from NSE NIFTY 500 for the sample period starting from April 2007 to December 2019. The following ARCH family models are tested to find the best model fit and use the...