In financial time series analysis structural breaks indicate a fundamental change in market processes. Therefore, those breaks are of great interest for portfolio managers. Knowledge about a structural break could help managers in the orientation of their portfolio. The classical methods of...

The paper studies the impact of the portfolio constraint imposed by the consumption demand for housing (the "housing constraint") on the household's optimal holdings of financial assets. Since the ratio of housing to net worth declines as the household accumulates wealth, the housing constraint...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to add to the literature on the impact of the Morningstar ratings by examining the impact of individual stock ratings in the Hare and Tortoise portfolios. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses an event study approach, where the effect of the...

The literature shows a substantial portion of momentum profits come from illiquid investments and short-selling, entailing abnormal transaction costs. Concentrating on liquid long-only investments, we investigate momentum using index out-performance portfolio selection (via a modified Sortino...

The issuance of bonds increased in inter-war Japan, the main investors being banks because the demand for loans declined in this period. Banks that were more tolerant to risk (that is, whose capital ratio was higher) made a larger amount of loans, which were riskier than bonds. While national...

New estimates are made of the relative importance of investments within the banks' assets structure, of the significance of bank investments in the market as a whole, of the composition of those investments, and of how those changed in a period that experienced a significant increase in the...

The global financial crisis has shown that current theories regarding financial markets are not appropriate for any market trend. In fact, they have been developed on financial markets that faced only corrections of the uptrend since the 1930s, and not a collapse requiring governmental intervention.

This paper draws a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity. Taking full advantage of daily quoted prices of microfinance stocks from their issuance, we construct microfinance country equity indices and an international global microfinance index. We analyze changes in these indices,...

The authors propose several connectedness measures built from pieces of variance decompositions, and they argue that they provide natural and insightful measures of connectedness among financial asset returns and volatilities. The authors also show that variance decompositions define weighted,...

Since the launch of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the interest in the trade of EUAs is constantly increasing among academics and market participants. The objective of this article is twofold: (i) a detailed description of this new market is provided for portfolio managers,...