This paper investigates the forecasting performance of three popular variants of the non-linear GARCH models, namely VS-GARCH, GJR-GARCH and Q-GARCH, with the symmetric GARCH(1,1) model as a benchmark. The application involves ten European stock price indexes. Forecasts produced by each...

This paper investigates the forecasting performance of three popular variants of the non-linear GARCH models, namely VS-GARCH, GJR-GARCH and Q-GARCH, with the symmetric GARCH(1,1) model as a benchmark. The application involves ten European stock price indexes. Forecasts produced by each...

The question on the predictive power of different exchange rate equilibrium models is one of the oldest and most intriguing in international finance and assets trading. On one side there is evidence - starting from Meese and Rogoff (1983) to Cheung, Chinn and Pascual (2005) - about the poor...

Following IAS/IFRS, the current accounting regime for European life insurance companies is oriented towards delaying the recognition and distribution of profit, and is still largely rooted in requirements for statutory solvency reporting. But, since the late 1980s, some insurers and banks with...

Defining social investing and its boundaries is a challenging task, since no general consensus exists about the ‘ideal' characteristics that socially responsible investments (SRIs) should possess. Some faith-based investments, for instance, Islamic funds, are often associated with SRIs, even...