This study examines the drivers of insurance market growth and causality between insurance and economic growth using a dynamic one-step system GMM estimator and panel Granger causality test on the sample of 19 emerging Asian economies over the period 2007-2017. Several macro-economic factors...

This paper examines whether Asian emerging stock markets (India, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand) have become integrated into world capital markets since their official liberalization dates by estimating and testing a dynamic integrated international capital asset pricing...

This paper empirically investigates the contagion effects of the global financial crisis in a multivariate Fractionally Integrated Asymmetric Power ARCH (FIAPARCH) dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) framework during the period 1997-2012. We focus on five most important emerging equity...

This empirical paper examines the impact of monetary policy of the United States, European Union and Japan on the stock prices of eight Asian Emerging Markets (AEMs) during the different quantitative easing (QE) policies in 2001-2016. Five VAR models are constructed to incorporate different...

This research paper investigates the stock market movements and linkages between the Asian emerging markets (China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand) and two developed markets (i.e. USA and Japan). This study employs the statistical application of descriptive...

In this article, we revisit the Friday the 13th effect discussed by Kolb and Rodriguez (1987) that has received increased interest in recent research. Using a dummy-augmented GARCH model, we investigate whether the occurrence of this superstitious calendar day has significant impact on the...