This paper investigates monthly liquidity in FTSE 100 equity index in London Stock Exchange over the period 1986 to 2005. The relationship between excess returns, order flow, dividend yields and earning-price ratio was examined using GARCH (1,1). The variables found insignificant, but the...

This paper provides the empirical framework to analyse the nature of currency crises by extending earlier work of Jeanne and Masson (2000) who suggest that a currency crisis model with multiple equilibria can be estimated using Markov regime switching (MRS) models. However, Jeanne and Masson...

This paper investigates financial contagion in a multivariate time-varying asymmetric framework, focusing on four emerging equity markets, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) and two developed markets (U.S. and U.K.), during five recent financial crises. Specifically, both a multivariate...

This study examines firms' stock returns' behaviour, when they announce corporate events such as management change, collaborations and stock repurchases. It examines how those events are portrayed in firms' stock returns. The methodologies used are event study analysis and bootstrap. Companies...

This paper examines the long and short-run relationships between three Central European Economies stock returns (Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic) and their main western economic and trading partner, which is Germany. We obtain evidence of links between macroeconomic variables and stock...

This study applies the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation (A-DCC) model in order to investigate the correlation dynamics among the Greek market and Eurozone during the recent debt crisis. Moreover, research employs copula functions in order to measure the correlation among Greek and...

This paper investigates the reaction of the London Stock Exchange to the announcement of the city hosting 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The expectations of the Olympic Games, are the anticipation of massive economic boosts to the host cities. These expectations are presumed to be translated into...

This paper investigates the usage of hedging and risk management in energy market. Energy firms adopt risk management tools in order to secure their positions. New economic environment leads them to take decisions based on secured positions. Financial crisis 2008 caused many problems in world...

This paper examines overreaction hypothesis in four emerging Balkan stock markets (Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Turkey), using average returns of four developed markets (US, UK, Germany and Greece), during the period 2000-2007. The hypothesis tested is that developed market movements create...