This article contributes to the asset pricing literature by offering an alternative missing factor: the excess holdings of foreign investors. To incorporate this factor, we mimic the portfolio of foreign investors in Borsa Istanbul (BIST) with respect to portfolio preferences (foreign ownership)...

This paper contributes to the literature on the financial integration in international stock markets by examining the dynamic relationship between global factors and herd behavior in an emerging market. Utilizing a time-varying transition probability Markov Switching model (TVTP-MS), we examine...

The study examines herding behavior in Turkish REITs (T-REITs) by using daily closing prices over the period of July 2007 to May 2016. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first study to solely examine the herding behavior in T-REITs by utilizing Chang et al. (2000) methodology. For...

This paper provides the first study of foreign investors' trading in a sizeable European emerging stock market, using a combination of daily and monthly complete data collected at the destination. It also introduces the structural conditional correlation (SCC) methodology to identify the...

The Financials sector in the Turkish economy has grown at a tremendous rate over the last 35 years. The liberalization and the opening of the economy to international and foreign investors in the 1990s, and the overhaul of the structure of the Turkish banking system with numerous reforms after...

This study examines stock price volatility effects of the insiders trading in Istanbul Stock Exchange. Our results indicate that insider trading significantly affects stock price volatility during and after the trade. Sub-sample analyses show that sell positions, the trades of the traders more...

The relationship between currencies and interest rates of different maturities is examined in the Turkish-US context. The real exchange rate between the new Turkish lira (YTL) and the US dollar is found to depend on both short- and long-term real US-Turkish interest rate differences....

This research analyzes interdependence and low efficiency of the selected capital markets in the period before and after the escalation of the global financial crisis. The aim is to show, based on the obtained results, the position that can be taken by potential investors in frontier capital...

In recent years, especially in the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, the performance of South Asia capital markets has attracted the attention of the researchers and investors across the globe. The resilient shown provides the impetus to examine the efficient market hypothesis in these...