Funding liquidity, i.e., the ease with which firms, investors and consumers can obtain funding, is a key property of the monetary transmission mechanism. This paper is an empirical assessment of the role played by various measures of credit availability in shaping the dynamics of asset prices...

We show that the price and returns volatilities depend on the first and the second degree of the total values and the total volumes of the transactions aggregated during averaging time interval Δ. We derive expressions that describe price volatility via volatilities of the value and the volume...

High Frequency Trading is pervasive across all electronic financial markets. As algorithms replace an increasing number of tasks previously performed by humans, cascading effects similar to the Flash Crash of May 6th 2010 become more likely. In this study, we bring together a number of different...

This paper studies the impact of monetary policy shocks on equity returns and their volatility among nine industries and their affiliated firms in the U.S. We use an extension of the traditional Capital Asset Pricing Model as the analytical framework and approximate policy shocks with the...

We study the impact of different central bank communication practices on the trading behavior and profitability of fast and slow traders in the foreign exchange market. We focus, in particular, on how the Bank of Japan's practice of introducing some randomness to the time at which it releases...

This book will be an important addition to the limited number of books that discuss finance and accounting issues in East Asian countries. While presenting recent empirical studies on finance and accounting in East Asian economies, it also reveals the underlying reasons for remarkable economic...

This study investigates the long run relation among Stock Returns and four major Foreign Exchanges in India over a period of 14 ½ year period starting from January, 2000 to June, 2014. On applying the techniques of Unit – root test, Multiple Break Point test, Johansen’s Cointegration and...

We estimate the effects of anticipated and unanticipated monetary policy changes on jump activity by employing high frequency non-parametric jump detection methods. We find that anticipated changes in the Fed funds have no significant effect on jumps. In contrast, jumps in the second moments of...

This study contributes in bridging the dichotomy between economic growth and business cycle paradigms by providing dynamic characterisation of the link between economic growth, risk aversion, uncertainty and variability in industrial production, consumption and investment. In a system of...

Purpose - The study examines global Gold market performance and correlations between COVID-19, the Russian invasion, inflation, investors' fear, asymmetric shocks, and the VIX (volatility index) impact on volatility. Research Methodology - This research uses an econometric approach to analyse...