We explore the possible causal effect of economic policy uncertainty on the connectedness of crude oil and currency markets using a sample of commodity currencies from advanced and emerging nations. A battery of linear and nonlinear Granger-based causality tests indicate the presence of a causal...

This study shows that the level of herding in an industry can be the basis for a profitable investment strategy. Using data from the Taiwanese stock market wherein the presence of investor herding has already been documented, we find that industries that experience high level of herding yield...

This paper examines the time-series predictability of reversals in an emerging stock market, Borsa Istanbul. We find that the state of the market has significant predictive power over payoffs to the contrarian strategy. The profitability of the contrarian strategy is primarily driven by...

This paper examines the international diversification benefits of nine bloc-wide equity sectors/subsectors in the oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries by comparing alternative spillover models that encompass local, regional and global factors. Both the return and volatility...

The main goal of this paper is to examine whether oil price risk is systematically priced in the cross-section of stock returns in net oil-exporting countries even after controlling for market and firm-level risk factors. Using firm-level data from the Gulf Arab stock markets, we find that...

We examine whether equity return dispersion, measured by the cross-sectional standard deviation of stock returns, is systematically priced in the cross-section of stock returns in China. We find that return dispersion carries a positive price of risk even after controlling for market, size,...

This paper explores international diversification benefits of Islamic bonds (sukuk) by examining dynamic spillovers and correlations between sukuk and conventional bond and stock markets. Asymmetric volatility spillover effects are observed from global debt and equity markets to Islamic bonds,...

This paper proposes an iterative model-building approach known as quantile boosting to trace out the predictive value of realized volatility and skewness for gold futures returns. Controlling for several widely studied market- and sentiment-based variables, we examine the predictive value of...