Purpose - This paper aims to expand foreign investors' understanding of potential return enhancement and risk diversification advantages offered by equity market of Pakistan through comparing its performance to performances in other markets and investigating what matters for investing in...

This research analyses high-frequency data of the cryptocurrency market in regards to intraday trading patterns. We study trading quantitatives such as returns, traded volumes, volatility periodicity, and provide summary statistics of return correlations to CRIX (CRyptocurrency IndeX), as well...

This study contrasts the effectiveness of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) against more recent augmented variants including size and book-to-market factors (Fama and French, 1993), liquidity (Liu, 2006) as well as both size and liquidity factors of Martinez et al (2005) in explaining...

This paper contrasts the performance of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) augmented by size and liquidity factors with its time varying coefficient counterpart using a unique market universe compiled from constituent stocks of blue chip indices BSE-100 (India), KSE-30 (Pakistan), DSE-20...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of traded turnover, Amihud (2002) and Liu (2006) metrics in measuring illiquidity, as used in a multifactor CAPM. The performance of this model is contrasted using a unique sample from Japan's regional stock exchanges, namely Sapporo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Osaka...

Liquidity is a multidimensional concept with most liquidity measures proxying for only one of the many facets. Using nine low-frequency liquidity proxies, this study calculates composite liquidity measures by extracting the commonality across liquidity dimensions. As a stock characteristic,...

Studying major currencies versus the U.S. Dollar, this paper makes two contributions. First, we document strong comovement in both intraday and daily currency spreads. We also show that currency spreads co-move with aggregate U.S. equity market spreads. Thus, comovement in liquidity is even more...

The question of whether or not increased stock market size allows for improved financing conditions for firms in emerging markets is an important one for policy-making. This paper seeks to investigate this issue by analyzing whether increases in market-level liquidity have indeed trickled down...

We analyze the potential implications of the regional integration of three stock markets: Macedonian, Croatian and Bulgarian stock exchanges. The first implication is related to the potential for risk diversification which may improve return per unit of risk earned by investors on these markets....

We use a unique dataset reporting the trading of an institutional asset manager implementing trend following strategies to estimate the associated transaction costs. With information both at the trade and the fund levels, we disentangle the impact of the execution quality from the management...