This paper examines the presence of the turn-of-the-year effects on the Romanian capital market. We use the daily closing values of some important indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange for the period January 2000 – August 2017. In order to reveal the impact of a turbulent context on the...

This study is conducted to find if there is an existence of volatility persisting in any of the market capitalization indices from NSE NIFTY 500 for the sample period starting from April 2007 to December 2019. The following ARCH family models are tested to find the best model fit and use the...

Before 1975, the mean weekend rate of return on the equal-weight (value-weight) stock market portfolio is significant -18bp (-19bp). After 1975, it is insignificant -5bp (-1bp). This break date is determined by a structural break test with unknown break date. The weekend effect is no longer an...

Based on the data of companies listed on A-share market during the year 2001 to 2009, this paper explores the relationship between product market power and trade volume in the view of heterogeneous beliefs. It's found that the improvement of product market power significantly promotes trading,...

In this paper I show that the co-movements between bid-ask spreads of equities and credit default swaps vary over time and increase over crisis periods. The co-movements are strongly related to systematic risk factors and to the theoretical debt-to-equity hedge ratio. I document that hedging and...

We develop a new measure for the probability of informed trading, called PCP. Using double-sorted portfolios, we find that excess returns increase from low to high PCP portfolios. In regression analysis, the effect of PCP on returns is significantly positive after controlling for illiquidity...

This paper examines the effects of the U.S. investor sentiment on American depository receipts (ADR) premiums by using daily prices of Latin American ADRs from 1995 to 2009. The volatility index (VIX) is used as a proxy for investor expectations about the stock market. High levels in the VIX...

In financial market, one of complex systems, there is highly nonlinear interaction between heterogeneous traders. Due to this nonlinear interaction, emergent behavior, which is so called ‘stylized facts' occurs in financial market. To understand impact of interaction between heterogeneous...

We investigate the influence of public companies on their local economies through the spending of their employees on local goods and services. Using the taxicab industry in New York City as a laboratory, we find that tips paid for taxis taken near firms’ headquarters are higher on the days...

This study is aimed at examining the relationship between India VIX and NIFTY and to examine the usefulness of volatility index as risk management tool for stock market trading. It is found that relationship between NIFTY and VIX is strong when market is moving down and vice a versa. I observed...