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Investors have a home country bias when it comes to investing, despite the diversification benefits that a global scope can provide. This over-reliance on domestic markets can be reduced through reliable indicators that inform investors of how global markets are performing. While ubiquitous...
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We assess the role played by exchange rates in buffering or amplifying the propagation of shocks across international equity markets. Using copula functions we model the joint dependence between exchange rates and two global equity markets and, from a copula framework, we obtain the conditional...
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greater stock market integration amid the increasing liberalization and globalization of capital markets …
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Cointegration has frequently been used in the financial econometrics literature to assess the degree of interdependence of financial markets. We show that if individual stock prices are generated by random walks with possibly contemporaneously correlated innovations, the resulting indices cannot...
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The all-stock equity indices provide important information to market participants for asset allocation and investment performance evaluations. In this paper, we construct market capitalization weighted indexes for each of the 23 countries included in the MSCI Emerging Markets index as of...
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This paper uses R/S analysis and fractional integration techniques to examine the persistence of two sets of 12 ESG and conventional stock price indices from the MSCI database over the period 2007-2020 for a large number of both developed and emerging markets. Both sets of results imply that...
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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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from 2009 to 2015. Using different copulas, our results show that there is weak but significant tail dependence between …
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This paper investigates whether equity indices of 24 emerging and 28 developed markets compensate their investors equally after taking risk into account, and examines the predictive power of reward-to-risk ratios for expected market returns. We place special emphasis on downside risk by...
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