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The analysis of co-movements of stock market returns is a fundamental issue in finance. The aim of this paper is to examine the co-movement between Germany and major International Stock Markets in the time-frequency space. Our sample period goes from 01 June 1992 to 26 March 2013 and includes...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the regional integration of national stock markets. Cluster analysis is utilised in order to determine whether returns generated in national stock markets form groupings. The results suggest that markets are segmented on a regional basis. This finding is...
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We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...
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This paper determines whether the world market risk, country-specific total risk, and country-specific idiosyncratic …, stacked time-series, and pooled panel regressions indicate that the world market risk is not, but country-specific total and …
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We investigate the effect of a stock market liberalization on industry growth in emerging markets. Consistent with the view that liberalization reduces financing constraints, we find that industries that are more externally dependent and face better growth opportunities grew faster following...
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The financial market turbulence in 1998, as other crises previously, produced strong price movements in the securities markets worldwide. This reflected, first, a general reassessment of credit risk, and, second, a drying-up of liquidity even in some of the largest mature securities markets. As...
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This paper provides global evidence supporting the hypothesis that expected return models are enhanced by the inclusion of variables that describe the evolution of book-to-market-changes in book value, changes in price, and net share issues. This conclusion is supported using data representing...
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This research examines the influence of world crude oil price shocks on the financial performance of Vietnamese oil … receive more stock returns. The results further demonstrate that world oil price fluctuations have significantly impacted on … depression of 2011-2012, the study reveals no evidence in the relationship between world oil price fluctuations and stock returns …
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The present study addresses the economic interpretation of stock market volatility. We argue that its character is inherently ambivalent, being considered as an indicator of either information flow or uncertainty.We discriminate between these views by measuring the fraction of price changes that...
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We plot aggregated daily stock returns with absolute value less than x against x and show empirically that this produces a typical spoon-shaped pattern which indicates a special type of asymmetry which has not been discussed before. This pattern disappears when individual returns are averaged; it...
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