The Istanbul Stock Exchange introduced warrant trading in 2010. Index warrant trading was expected to lower the volatility of the underlying ISE-30 index. This study examines the effect of index warrant trading on the volatility of the index. The research period was divided into two: the...

This paper examines herding behavior in investors in world stock markets including developed stock markets (United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria and Hong Kong) and emerging stock markets (Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Argentina and Turkey). Using the...

Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, these relationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....

In this study, we conducted a research as to whether splits in shares on the ISE-ON Index at the Istanbul Stock Exchange have had an impact on returns generated from shares between 2005 and 2011 or not using event study method. This study is based on parametric tests, as well as on nonparametric...

The financial theory related to the bond portfolio analysis was coined by Harry Markowitz, an authentic’ pioneer of the modern bond theory’, and his well-thought interpretation of the bond selection model may be found in his research papers “Portfolio Selection” (Markowitz M. Harry,...

We review the theory of leverage developed in collateral equilibrium models with incomplete markets. We explain how leverage tends to boost asset prices, and create bubbles. We show how leverage can be endogenously determined in equilibrium, and how it depends on volatility. We describe the...

Our study considers whether ethical investments are also good investments. In contrast with previous studies, we utilize long-run event study methodology to examine abnormal returns associated with firms being included in, and dropped from, the MSCI KLD400 Social Index (MSCI KLD400). We find...

A minőségi borokba történő befektetés mint valós befektetési alternatíva az utóbbi évtizedekben virágkorát éli, mára a borok több indexét is jegyzik a Bloomberg és más adatszolgáltatók platformjain. A Liv-ex (London International Vintners Exchange) a globális minőség...

A bennfentes kereskedések hozamának elemzése mind profit-, mind pedig szabályozási szempontból fontos. A szabályozás számos közgazdasági és jogi szakmai problémát felvet. A tanulmány először a hozamelemzés előkészítését vizsgálja a szabályozás oldaláról, majd a...

Az elmúlt években a nagy európai bankcsoportok egyre több közép-kelet-európai bankot vásároltak fel. Tanulmányunkban a bankfúziók értékteremtő hatását részvényesi szemmel elemezzük. A közép-kelet-európai régióban tevékenykedő hét legnagyobb bankcsoport 2000 és 2008...