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We examine the impact of COVID-19 (C-19) pandemic on global equity markets by constructing novel infection indices. Our results show that the impact of prompt and large-scale policy interventions is ambiguous yet statistically significant. However, in this equivocality, the impact of global...
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the role of gold as safe haven typically focus on returns, we also investigate the relationship between gold volatility … and stock returns. In particular, we are interested in the behaviour of gold volatility on days with negative shocks in … the equity market. The conditional volatility of gold is of direct relevance for an assessment of the effectiveness of the …
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has generally increased over time, and that in times of crisis liquidity is lower and the volatility of liquidity is …
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The oil price volatility index (OPVI) is a direct and more accurate measure of oil price uncertainty. The significance … of the crude oil prices volatility index is used in this paper to examine the effects of crude oil uncertainty on the … (−) fluctuations of the crude oil price volatility index (OPVI). Moreover, the paper measure whether the reform of 2012 stimulated the …
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linkages and fundamental forces driving return volatility in the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation … asymmetric volatility responses, while Nepal exhibits an inverted asymmetric volatility response, and in contrast Sri Lanka … exhibits a symmetric volatility response to return shocks. Finally, most of these markets experience volatility spillover …
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This paper investigates the predictive content of the VIX options trading volume for the future dynamics of the underlying VIX index. Using a novel dataset from the Chicago Board Options Exchange, we calculate the put-call ratio based on the VIX option volume initiated by buyers to open new...
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This paper investigates the asymmetric volatility behavior of Nepalese stock market including the spillover effects … from the US and Indian equity markets. We model asymmetric volatility within generalized autoregressive conditional … compared to the results in other international equity markets: positive shocks increase volatility by more than negative shocks …
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Daily financial market returns (as log difference in closing prices) may be quite sensitive to operation with low trading volumes and big changes in prices frequently traded at market closing times. This paper proposes a more robust estimation of market returns by providing a new indicator that...
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Based on a method developed by Laybourne, Kim and Taylor (2007) for detecting multiple changes in persistence, we test for changes in persistence in the dividend-price ratio of the Nasdaq stocks. The results confirm the existence of the so-called Dotcom bubble around the last turn of the century...
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Unsolicited credit ratings are issued solely at the discretion of rating agencies based on public information. This paper analyzes firms' incentives to solicit credit ratings to signal their quality and rating agencies' incentives to issue unsolicited ratings. Conditions for two types of...
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