This paper estimates the volatility index term structure for the Spanish bank industry (SBVX) using the implied volatility of individual banks and assuming market correlation risk premium. This methodology enables calculating a volatility index for arbitrary (non-traded) portfolios. Using data...

Heater, Nallareddy, and Venkatachalam (2021), hereafter HNV, find that aggregate merger and acquisition (M&A) activity explains the ability of aggregate accruals to predict market-wide returns. In this discussion, we delineate HNV’s contribution to accounting literature and provide a review of...

This paper sets out a comparison between the current regulation of the Best Interests of Creditors Rule (BIoC-Test) as it currently exists in the Consolidated Text 1/2020 of the Insolvency Act in Spain and that proposed in the amended proposal made public by the Spain’ Government in July 2021....

Estimation of volatility is important for many financial applications. The most common methods are based on a time series analysis, either sampling prices at regular intervals or using extreme values from within the time intervals. We examine an alternative, where we use the exit times from a...

This article revisits a number of empirical relationships in the oil and commodity index futures markets. For example, the article examines how to put roll yields in proper perspective, which is that they are most properly seen as predictive of future returns over sufficiently long timeframes....

Out of three important market parameters, capitalisation play very decisive role to understand the behaviour of stock market. Most often capitalisation could be used as a proxy for the public opinion on stock exchanges. In this study the relationship between number of listed companies and sensex...

To understand the illiquidity of the over-the-counter market when dealers and traders are in long-term relationships, I develop a framework to study the endogenous liquidity distortions resulting from the profit-maximizing, screening behavior of dealers. The dealer offers the trading mechanism...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate which of the proposed parametric models for extracting risk-neutral density; among Black-Scholes Merton, mixture of two log-normals and generalized beta; give the best fit. The model that fits sample data better is used to describe different...

The MICEX Index in the period between 27 October and 26 November 2015 increased 6.8% to 1712 points as oil prices fell. Sberbank reported two consecutive months of return on equity higher than other blue chips. The Moscow Exchange trade turnover and overall capitalization continued to increase....

The Bank of Russia medium-run monetary policy course is to remain unchanged: the regulator will continue its efforts to bring the inflation rate down to 4% in 2017. This follows from the draft of the Guidelines for the Single State Monetary policy in 2016 and for 2017 and 2018. For this goal to...