The COVID-19 pandemic, declared on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has had a severe economic and financial impact on every economy around the world. This paper aims to analyze the short-term impact of COVID-19 on global financial stock market indices. We study the impact...

Employing asset-pricing models over the period 2012 to 2017, this study examines whether a search attention index (SAI) explains the variation in the weekly excess return of stocks. The study finds that the estimated abnormal return of a portfolio based on search intensity is significantly high...

This paper uses R/S analysis and fractional integration techniques to examine the persistence of two sets of 12 ESG and conventional stock price indices from the MSCI database over the period 2007-2020 for a large number of both developed and emerging markets. Both sets of results imply that...

This paper investigates how stock market returns respond to economic policy uncertainty shocks. Based on the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis of the monthly changes in economic policy uncertainty index in the United States and CRSP value-weighted index from 1985:M2 to 2012:M6, the results...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has triggered a fall in the pandemic has completely changed the worldandtransformedour lives, the patterns of economies, and the behaviour of businesses. The market has the tendency to perceive long-term shocks which economy can give to the market, but contrary to...

Using daily data on five sectoral indices from 2006 to 2014, this paper aims to investigate the possibility of fractional integration in sectoral returns (and their volatility measures) at Jordan's Amman stock exchange (ASE). Empirical analysis, using the Log-periodogram (LP) and Local Whittle...

Recent advances in natural language processing have contributed to the development of market sentiment measures through text content analysis in news providers and social media. The effectiveness of these sentiment variables depends on the implemented techniques and the type of source on which...

This paper describes a new formulation of the partial adjustment model (PAM) and its speed of adjustment coefficient. Speed of adjustment coefficients have been used to measure the efficiency or inefficiency in financial markets. Using the model by Amihud and Mendelson (1987), Damodaran (1993)...

Statistical international arbitrage is a well-established trading strategy amongst investment firms and hedge funds. This study tests whether contrarian (pairs-trading) strategies are profitable in Chinese and Australian markets. The profitability of these international strategies is also a test...

This research intends to explore the presence of the "turn-of-the-month-effect (TOME)" in the Pakistani stock market. The TOME is the temporary increase in prices of registered shares on the last operating day of the month and the initial 3-4 days of the following month. The selection...