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We find that exogenous structural shocks caused by terrorist attacks, wars, political turmoil and gold market specific events have a strong role to play in the analysis of dynamic relationships between gold and stock market returns. Our main finding is that the interaction between the gold...
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This paper examines the relationship between CDS and bond markets in the context of the financial crisis by employing daily data between January 2007 and September 2014. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study that analyses the incorporation of new information for CDSs and bonds...
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As a source of energy of biofuel and edible oil, the fluctuation of crude palm oil prices is the concern of producers and manufacturers. However, little is known about the impact of global financial crisis on informational efficiency of crude palm oil (CPO) futures market. Hence, this study aims...
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This paper investigates whether banks were able to create value for their shareholders after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and whether operational efficiency is related to shareholder value creation in informationally efficient stock markets. The impact of GFC on bank efficiency and...
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By analogy with the Richter scale used to determine the earthquake magnitude, the paper proposes a statistical measure for the magnitude of the "financial earthquake" by means of the market energy. The energy released by the market is defined by means of the trading volume and the market...
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The global financial crisis of 2008 was a crisis affecting both the financial sector and the “real economy.” This paper analyzes the transmission of unexpected shocks from the financial sector in the US to other countries and sectors. We test the hypothesis that the financial crisis spread...
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This paper analyzes the incidences of sector-specific contagion during the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. The empirical analysis comprising ten sectors in 25 major developed and emerging stock markets shows that the crisis led to an increased co-movement of returns and thus contagion...
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This paper explores the opportunities of momentum and contrarian profits on the Bucharest Stock Exchange during quiet and turbulent times. In our investigation we employ daily values of the main indexes from the Bucharest Stock Exchange for two periods of time. During the first period, from...
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In large parts of literature, an increase in correlation coefficients of returns across countries is regarded as evidence for contagion in financial markets. This paper checks this hypothesis in the Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) markets. We construct a sample of 43 CDSs on major U.S. and European...
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Australian Steve Keen was, in fact, one of just 13 registered economists , out of a global total of around 36,000 (yes that really comes out as 0.04%), who actually anticipated the global financial crisis.Knowing this, I think it’s almost impossible not to want to read his latest book,...
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