The focus of this paper is the review the empirical work in the area of shipping finance, which deals with the companies in the shipping sector that have made the decision to resort to the capital markets in order to finance their activities. The paper is concerned with the performance of listed...

This paper investigates whether bond, issuer, industry and macro-specific variables account for the observed variation of credit spreads' changes of global shipping bond issues before and after the onset of the subprime financial crisis. Results show that conclusions as to the significant...

This paper proposes a credit scoring model for the empirical assessment of default risk drivers of shipping bank loans. A unique dataset, consisting of the credit portfolio of a ship-lending bank is used to estimate a logit model with two-way clustered adjusted standard errors, ensuring robust...

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the impact of the introduction of Forward Freight Agreement (FFA) trading on spot market price volatility in panamax 1, 1A, 2, and 2A trading routes of the dry-bulk shipping industry. The main concern about the impact of derivatives trading emanates...

This paper investigates the lead-lag relationship in daily returns and volatilities between price movements of stock index futures and the underlying cash index in the FTSE/ASE-20 and FTSE/ASE Mid-40 markets of the Athens Stock Exchange. Empirical results confirm previous findings that there is...

In previous issues we anticipated a permanent 50-100% increase in dry cargo and tanker values and time charter rates. These adjustments have already occurred. We now see prices and rates oscillating, over the next 10 years, around much higher levels than those of the recent depression but...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the effects of different trading systems, the open outcry and the electronic systems, which differ in the speed of dissemination of order flow information, on the relation between trading activity and conditional volatility, on the probability distribution...

The paper investigates the dynamics of price changes and information flow to the market in the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece using daily data over the period 1988 to 1993. A generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) model in stock returns is shown to reflect time...

This paper investigates the causal relationship between futures and spot prices in the freight futures market. Being a thinly traded market whose underlying asset is a service, sets it apart from other markets investigated so far in the literature. Causality tests, generalised impulse response...

This paper investigates the issue of market risk quantification for emerging and developed market equity portfolios. A very wide spectrum of popular and widely used in practice Value at Risk (VaR) models are evaluated and compared with Extreme Value Theory (EVT) and adaptive filtered models,...