We examine the relationship between Islamic and conventional stock market returns to see if Islamic financial markets provide portfolio diversification benefits and safe havens during turbulent times. Using daily data from January 1996 through September 2020 we consider conventional emerging...

This research paper investigates the stock market movements and linkages between the Asian emerging markets (China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand) and two developed markets (i.e. USA and Japan). This study employs the statistical application of descriptive...

We conduct an extensive examination of profitability of technical analysis in ten emerging foreign exchange markets. Studying 25988 trading strategies, we find that best rules can sometimes generate an annually mean excess return of more than 30%. Based on standard tests, we find hundreds to...

This paper focuses on testing possible linkages among international gold and ASEAN emerging markets based on daily data from July 28, 2000 to March 31, 2009. The Granger causality test and the Johansen cointegration technique were applied to examine possible short-run associations and the...

This study investigates the effects of the recent global crisis on the relative efficiency of six CEE currency markets, using the Generalized Spectral test of Escanciano and Velasco (2006) in a rolling window approach. The empirical results show that the global crisis adversely affected the...

This article examines changes in the exchange rate expectations associated with capital controls and banking regulations in a group of emerging countries that implemented these measures to control the adverse effects of sudden capital flows on their currencies. The evidence suggests that for...

This article examines changes in the exchange rate expectations associated with capital controls and banking regulations in a group of emerging countries that implemented these measures to control the adverse effects of sudden capital flows on their currencies. The evidence suggests that for...

This paper uses linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests to study the lead-lag relationship between FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (FBM KLCI) and Kuala Lumpur Composite Index Futures (FKLI). We apply a new nonparametric test for Granger causality test by Diks and Panchenko...

This paper compares various machine learning models to predict the cross-section of emerging market stock returns. We document that allowing for non-linearities and interactions leads to economically and statistically superior out-of-sample returns compared to traditional linear models. Although...