We investigate how globalization is reflected in asset prices. We use shipping costs to measure firms' exposure to globalization. Firms in low shipping cost industries carry a 7 percent risk premium, suggesting that their cash-flows covary negatively with investors' marginal utility. We find...

The study is intended to investigate the symmetrical relationship between macroeconomic variability and KSE-100 indexes by employing the ARDL model with bound testing procedure and error correction model. Authors have also examined whether the linkages between macroeconomic variability and...

Even though both symmetric and asymmetric conceptions of news impacts are well-established in the disciplines of economics and financial markets, the effects of combining multiple news shocks on the volatility of tourism demand have not yet been delved into or gauged in any tourist destination....

In EU (2008-2014, monthly data) regarding the variation of stock returns “January effect” does not matter, while EU follows the USA stock returns and finally southern regions (who are mostly hit by the crisis) tend to have a negative impact on stock returns. The elaboration of panel data...

In this paper we investigate the herding behaviour of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), using log periodic power laws models.By analysing the behaviour of the most speculative index from the Bucharest Stock Exchange, the BET-FI, we are able to demonstrate that Log-Periodic Power Law (LPPL)...

In this study, the relationship between oil price movements and Turkish stock market is investigated. Given the fact that Turkey is an emerging and oil dependent country, we analyze how the stock market behaves together with the fluctuations in oil prices. The study focuses on extreme...

Although most recent empirical research regarding the size and significance of the impact of changes in wealth on consumption has looked for such effects in the United States, equity prices in the 1990s rose considerably in most other industrial countries as well. This paper investigates the...