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volatility of Borsa Istanbul 100 Index (BIST-100). Sample data cover the period from January 2008 to December 2017. The main … nonlinear volatility models (symmetric and asymmetric Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity [GARCH …]-type models) were used to model and estimate BIST-100 volatility in response to political news. The findings of the paper …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future returns around the firm … volatility is more strongly negative compared to news idiosyncratic volatility. Such findings imply that limited arbitrage cannot … fully explain the negative pricing of idiosyncratic volatility in the Chinese stock market. These results are robust after …
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This paper documents that policy uncertainty reduces future stock price crash risk. Our tests show that this negative relation is more pronounced among firms with more short-sale constraints, with no actively traded credit default swap contracts, or with higher firm-level political risks. The...
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Based on a unique arrangement of trading and disclosure times around earnings announcements in the Chinese stock market, we provide evidence of a striking overnight-intraday disparity in terms of the reaction to earnings news. Specifically, we find that the overnight period exhibits a strong and...
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While pledging shares as collateral for personal loans is commonly practiced in many countries that protect minority shareholders, the empirical evidence has shown only its value destruction to shareholders. This paper offers an (partial) explanation of this puzzle by documenting a positive...
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Since the late 1990s, the number of apologies being offered by CEOs of large companies has exploded. Communication and management scholars have analyzed whether and why some of these apologies are more effective or more ethical than others. Most of these analyses, however, have remained at the...
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This study aims to investigate the effect of bond issuance announcements and to determine the company characteristics that could influence this effect. The findings reveal positive cumulative average abnormal returns following bond issuances, indicating that the market considers bond offers to...
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We use economic policy uncertainty (EPU) shocks in combination with the mixed data sampling (MIDAS) approach to investigate long-run stock market variances and correlations, primarily for the US and the UK. The US long-run stock market variance depends significantly on US EPU shocks but not on...
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We study the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) shocks on the long-run stock market variances and correlations, primarily for the US and the UK. We find that US EPU shocks affect both US and UK stock market long-run variances and correlation, but UK EPU shocks only affect its own...
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A conjecture in the literature holds that a large and diversified investor base leads to lower volatility by improving … does not support the conjecture. Instead, volatility increases in the number of investors and in the size of the firm … implications for stock return volatility …
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