Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate whether call auctions which batch orders for simultaneous execution, may restrain stock market volatility. Design/methodology/approach -The authors use high-frequency data to investigate volatility changes following the suspension...

This study discusses the strategic priorities and challenges for securities exchanges in new EU member states, with a special reference to the internationalisation of securities markets. The ways in which exchanges are responding to such challenges and other possible courses of action are...

Stock market data tends to display distinct characteristics commonly known as “stylized facts”. These include non-stationarity of price levels, as well as peak-shaped, fat-tailed and heteroskedastic log returns. This paper presents empirical evidence of these characteristics for emerging...

This paper investigates the diversification prospects which may be reaped when investing in a mixture of emerging and developed market assets. Given that emerging markets are somewhat distinct from developed ones, one may expect significant diversification potential and therefore risk reduction....

This paper focuses on customers’ perceptions regarding two key aspects in Maltese retail finance: service quality and internet banking. The importance of these topics is likely to keep on growing in the near future, as clients become more demanding and financially-literate. We use various...