We study the behavior and interaction of systematic and idiosyncratic components of risk in a cross-section of U.K. stocks. We find no clear evidence of a trend in any component of total risk, but we document different “regimes” in the behavior of each component of total risk, in their...

This study decomposes total risk of a MSCI Asian country index returns into three components: world systematic risk, Asian regional systematic risk and country-specific risk. The study finds an Asian country index returns mostly respond to shocks originated within the country. China, Korea and...

We apply the multivariate extension of GARCH-type models in order to assess the systematic and systemic risks as well as the joint volatility behaviors of the U.S. and three European financial markets (Andersen et al., 2010). Therefore, we can appraise the co-movements of the four previous...

This study aims to shed light on the risk structure in the presence of Islamic banking, in particular in Turkey. Islamic banking and conventional banking are considered to be different kind of sources for funding. Returns in the conventional banking expected to be heavily influenced by the...

This paper introduces an alternate measure of idiosyncratic risk leveraged from the decomposition method to further eliminate the residual systematic risk inherent in the factor asset pricing model. Combining both complementary techniques contributes to a more comprehensive firm-level...

In 2007, a number of stock funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) tended to invest in Asian markets due to their outstanding performance during the period prior to 2006. However, can this move increase the covariate between the stock and REIT markets in Asian markets as well as further...

Global institutional investors face constraints, in the form of either external regulations or internal firm policies, with regard to investing in countries rated speculative grade. As a consequence, when a country receives (loses) its investment-grade status, a significant inflow (outflow) of...

This paper aims to shed light on the determinants of systematic risk in the global macro-finance interface. We estimate a time-varying two-factor ICAPM, using weekly equity returns and Msci market-capitalisation weighted basket of foreign currencies. We follow a two-step estimation procedure; in...

This study recalibrates corporate bond idiosyncratic risks in an international context. Applying a statistically powerful risk decomposition scheme, we show in this study that diversification is improved by the addition of a global risk benchmark. We build a long-run stationary yield spread...

The paper describes and analyzes the application of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the single-index model on the Zagreb stock exchange during the drop in the total trade turnover, and mostly in the trade of equity securities. This model shows through the analysis techniques used to...