Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess trading strategies adopted by each large trader group and examine their effects on the volatility in the interest rate futures markets. Design/methodology/approach: The Grinblatt et al.'s (1995) measure of momentum strategy is used to estimate the...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible relationship between the Capital Asset Pricing Model - CAPM and the prevailing High Frequency Trading (HFT) method of stocks trading and to explain the relationship between them, if exist, with the references from research papers and...

What factors determine a firm's cash holdings has been a popular topic of research in finance, especially in light of surging cash holdings by US corporations in recent years. The bulk of such research has focused primarily on firm-specific factors occasionally sprinkled with macroeconomic...

For more than a decade, to reduce the agency problem, various ways have been examined on how to align the interest of manager with shareholders. However, evidence and empirical findings are conflicting on the agency problem. Recently, deferred compensation as one of incentive compensations draws...

This paper examines the performance of a näive equally weighted buy-and-hold portfolio and optimization-based commodity futures portfolios for various lookback and holding periods using data from January 1986 to December 2018. The application of Monte Carlo simulation-based mean-variance and...