This study attempts to analyze the effects of investor sentiment on volatility of nine stock markets, and capture the asymmetry in terms of negative and positive news during the period from January, 2004 to June, 2015. Empirical evidence from a sentiment-augmented TGARCH model demonstrates that...

We argue that arbitrageurs will strategically limit their initial investment in an arbitrage opportunity in anticipation of further mispricing caused by the deepening of noise traders' misperceptions. Such ‘noise momentum' is an important determinant of the overall arbitrage process. We design...

Using a simple sign test, we report new empirical evidence, taken from both the US and the German stock markets, showing that trading behavior substantially changed around Black Monday in 1987. It turned out that before Black Monday investors behaved more as in the momentum strategy; and after...

This edited volume will highlight recent research in derivatives modelling and markets in a post-crisis world across a number of dimensions or themes. The book addresses the following main areas: derivatives models & pricing, model application & performance backtesting, new products & market...