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-of-sample predictive power of indicators. The forecasting results suggest that models based on FX options are inferior to the random walk … in terms of the forecasting error, confirming a stylized fact about the short-term forecasting of exchange rates. Yet, we … change of the exchange rate. -- Options ; implied volatility ; risk-neutral density ; exchange rate forecasting ; Bayesian …
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The study examines the impact of Global Financial Crisis of 2007 onwards on volatility behavior of Asian stock markets using GARCH and TARCH models. The study uses daily closing price data of stock arkets of India, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and Korea. The results reveal that...
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The “Flash Crash” of May 6th, 2010 comprised an unprecedented, rapid decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that was followed by a rapid, disorderly recovery of prices. We illuminate the causes of this singular event with the first analysis of all order book activity at millisecond...
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In this paper we analyze the link between stock market performance and macroeconomic performance for a large number of countries. We study the short-run and long-run relationships and find that stock market returns do not coherently predict future macroeconomic changes for the majority of...
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This paper examines the response of US stock returns to Federal Funds rate (FFR) surprises between 1989 and 2012, focusing on the impact of the recent financial crisis. We find that outside the crisis period, stock prices increased as a response to unexpected FFR cuts. State dependence is...
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This paper examines the effects of persistence, asymmetry, and the US Sub-prime Mortgage crisis on the volatility of the returns and also the linkages and causality between the spot and futures volatility by using various classes of the ARCH and GARCH models, and through the Granger's causality....
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The informational efficiency is the central backdrop among researchers in the quest of behavioural finance since Fama (J Financ 25:383–417, 1970). The succession of time has witnessed the dramatic transformation in the field of global stock markets over the years, and subsequently the...
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. Identifying the impact of this information on stock markets and forecasting stock returns and volatilities has become a much more …
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With the onset of the financial turmoil in August 2007, pricing references on the money market interest rates have been shocked. The segment of unsecured deposit transactions, which represent the cornerstone of capital markets, and is used as basis for the setting of money market benchmark...
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