This study investigates the impact of the Greek debt negotiations, along with the increasing fears of a “Grexit”, on British pound (GBP), Euro (EUR) and Japanese Yen (JPY) currencies. Their respective implied volatility currency indices (i.e., BPVIX, EUVIX and JYVIX) were used on daily...

This study examines firms' stock returns' behaviour, when they announce corporate events such as management change, collaborations and stock repurchases. It examines how those events are portrayed in firms' stock returns. The methodologies used are event study analysis and bootstrap. Companies...

This paper investigates whether cointegration and causality relationships exist among the stock markets of the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) during the period 2005-2011. To accomplish our objective, we divide the sample period into two sub-periods (1 February...

This paper investigates calendar anomalies for four emerging stock markets (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey) and their mature counterpart in the Balkan region (Greece), during the period 2000-2008. Five well known calendar effects on both return and volatility are examined: The day of the...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of terrorism on tourism demand in Greece using monthly data from 1977 to 2012. We investigate whether this relationship is bidirectional and whether it exhibits long run persistence. Thus, we employ a large dataset of terrorist incidents and...

This paper provides additional international evidence on the IPOs by examining the initial performance and two main determinants of short-run underpricing of 169 IPOs listed on the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) over the period 1997-2002. The initial performance of the IPOs is measured by...

This paper investigates the day of the week effect in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) General Index over a ten year period divided into two subperiods: 1995-2000 and 2001-2004. Five major indices are also considered: Banking, Insurance, and Miscellaneous for the first subperiod, and FTSE-20 and...

The aim of this study is to examine the correlation of the service quality dimensions to the overall customer satisfaction in the Greek banking sector, following its restructuring due to the mergers and the takeovers during the current financial crisis period (2009 - 2015), and to analyze in...