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Periods of economic turmoil distort the ability of stock prices to reflect the available information. In the last three decades, emerging markets experienced numerous crises. The major three of them are the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-1998), Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009) and Global...
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Following the recent financial crisis, increasing the transparency of credit default swap (CDS) markets has been a popular goal among regulators. We examine how changes in the transparency of the CDS market can impact liquidity in the corresponding equity market. We first extend a model of...
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This study investigates how the Global Financial Crisis has affected the weak-form Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) on the stock prices of sixteen nations throughout the globe based on a suite of Fourier unit root tests. Considering the smooth structural breaks, we employed the Fourier-based...
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Purpose - The economic and administrative conditions of countries normatively have an effect on the economy and level of market development. Moreover, it is of great importance for a healthy economy whether the public institutions and organizations are transparent and functioning in accordance...
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This paper examines how gambling-motivated trading affects aggregate financial market outcomes. Using a unique global gambling data set covering 39 countries, we show that the dollar volume of stock market gambling is at least 3.5 times the combined volume of “traditional” gambling outlets...
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Efficiency in stock markets is essential for economic stability and growth. This study investigates the efficiency and herding behavior of the stock markets from the top economies of the world (known as G20 countries). We classify stock market indices using MSCI classification for the developed...
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finance-related Twitter messages we identify expert users whose tweets predominantly focus on finance topics. We document that … expert users are the main drivers behind a significant contemporaneous link between Twitter sentiment and financial markets … investment strategies based on Twitter signals that survive basic transaction cost assumptions. In this context, our results show …
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This study investigates the dynamic connectedness across the variance risk premium in international developed and emerging equity markets based on a Bayesian time-varying parameter vector autoregressive methodology.The empirical results indicate that the total spillover index is on average...
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