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The COVID-19 pandemic, declared on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has had a severe economic and … financial impact on every economy around the world. This paper aims to analyze the short-term impact of COVID-19 on global … sectors (Pharma, Healthcare, Information Technology, Hotel & Airline) based on the indices of three different economies (World …
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We investigate the effects of macroeconomic announcements made in the United States on trading activity of stocks listed in Borsa Istanbul. The influence of these releases on the selected variables are an important source of information for market participants. Results show a clear negative...
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The COVID-19 pandemic, declared on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has had a severe economic and … financial impact on every economy around the world. This paper aims to analyze the short-term impact of COVID-19 on global … sectors (Pharma, Healthcare, Information Technology, Hotel & Airline) based on the indices of three different economies (World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227586
We exploit the merger between BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors to study how changes in expected ownership concentration affect the investment behavior of funds and the cross-section of stocks worldwide. We find that funds with open-end structures and a large exposure to commonly-held...
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brink of collapse and the deepest contraction in world output in more than half a century followed. Moreover, unprecedented …
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Using data from ten developed and seven emerging countries, we analyse stock market's volatility and the macroeconomic factors that influence stock market's volatility from January 2001 till December 2012. We use standard historical volatility model followed by Jones et al. (1998) and Andersen...
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This paper examines the impact of changes in economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and COVID-19 shock on stock returns. Tests of 16 global stock market indices, using monthly data from January 1990 to August 2021, suggest a negative relation between the stock return and a country’s EPU. Evidence...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the notion that cryptocurrencies are uncorrelated with traditional asset markets. This study uses VAR-OLS techniques to investigate the time-varying correlation between Bitcoin and three major European stock market indices from January 4, 2016, to February...
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We analyze the effect of scheduled macroeconomic news on intraday market sentiment by comparing the sentiment of the announcement date with that of the non-announcement date. The announcement of the macroeconomic indicators itself does not change the market sentiment, but the direction of the...
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Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, theserelationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high-frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....
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