This paper examines the conditional and unconditional mean returns and variance of returns of daily gold and silver contracts over the 1982-2002 period. Despite the importance of these metals as industrial and investment products, they have received scant attention in recent years. In...

We study the evolution of global equity market integration using US dollar denominated iShares. Designed to mimic the movements of MSCI indices, these securities provide an easy pool of international diversification products for the investor. As such they allow us to conduct an analysis of the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the MENA’s potential for portfolio diversification benefits by examining long run equity linkages with daily data over the 1998-2004 periods. Our analysis is based on several co-integration analyses and an extension of Akdogan measures of financial...

The rapid and widespread digitalization of economies warrants a better understanding of its impact on society and economy. This study contributes to this new but important research agenda by examining how news on digitalization affects digital economy related exchange traded funds (ETFs). For...

Purpose – This paper aims to empirically examine the financing of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) through a financial growth lifecycle model. Design/methodology/approach – Data in publicly available databases are generally unsuitable to examine the financial lifecycle model, thus a...