Passive portfolio management which aims to replicate a stock index faces basically two different optimization methods. Traditional portfolio management employs historical stock return data of preselected stocks in order to replicate the underlying stock index. The cointegration method employs...

The following contribution analyzes linkages between preselected national stock markets by a multivariate application of Markov-Switching models. This study shows evidence that the US-stock market and the German and Swedish stock markets are driven by the same unobservable stochastic variable....

This article investigates the relation of idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) and future returns on a portfolio level in global equity markets. In contrast to previous studies (Ang <italic>et al.</italic> 2006, 2009), it reveals that the spread between stock indices exhibiting a high IVOL and stock indices with low...

This paper investigates the profitability of momentum-based trading strategies pursued during the most recent economic downturns in global equity markets. In contrast to previous studies, it reveals that such strategies generated statistically significant negative returns during the most recent...

This study examines the volatility spillovers between the foreign exchange rate markets of three of the USA’s major trading partners and the US stock market, utilizing the forecast-error variance decomposition framework of a VAR model proposed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2009). The empirical...

This paper investigates the size distortions of HCCME-based tests for serial correlation and the wild bootstrapped counterparts in the presence of asymmetric conditional heteroskedasticity. Thereby, asymmetric effects are allowed to enter the residual process of the dynamic regression model in...