We compare the market reactions of developed and emerging market firms to reconstitutions of the FTSE Environmental Opportunities (FTSE EO) index. Our primary finding is that developed market firms that were added to or deleted from the FTSE EO experience significant increases in stock prices...

This study is the first attempt to investigate stock market returns and liquidity reactions to the announcements of fiscal, monetary, prudential and other COVID-19 policies in 64 countries during 2020. The results reveal generally that financial and economic policies announcements boosted stock...

This paper compares the unconventional monetary policy spillover effect in the FED and the ECB toward the asset price in the emerging market by using the Rigobon method and examing how different macro and financial can explain the heterogeneous impact of the international spillover effect. This...

In this study, we examine stock market shocks using a Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) model encompassing 26 countries from January 1999 to June 2022. Our findings reveal that i) shocks originating from advanced economies (AD) exhibit greater persistence in generating fluctuations compared to...

Purpose: This paper examines the associative and causal relationship between changes in the implied volatility index (VIX) and stock market returns, with data from 15 countries representing both developed and emerging economies.1 We also examine the dynamic variation, if any in the nature of the...