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This study examines the determinants of time-varying return volatility of Africa's equity markets using monthly indices … of eight top African stock markets. The conditional variance is modelled as a proxy for Africa's volatility indices using … volatility, the least squares dummy variable bias correction (LSDVC) model is employed. The study finds that volatility of …
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Over the last three decades, the world economy has been facing stock market crashes, currency crisis, the dot-com and real estate bubble burst, credit crunch and banking panics. As a response, extreme value theory (EVT) provides a set of ready-made approaches to risk management analysis....
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This study analyzed activism that leads to a merger or acquisition (M&A) of a firm to see its benefits for the shareholders at the target firm as well as its acquirer. It used over thirty years of data to understand the impact of the activists’ demands of strategic significance for the firms....
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Our paper investigates the nexus between the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) and the market leverage of firms listed on the … approaches for the panel models firmly support our findings. In addition, our research suggests that the implied volatility index …
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return correlations using weekly returns on futures markets and investigate the extent to which multivariate volatility …
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parameters are used to capture the market performance such as daily return, Volatility of daily return, market capitalization and … or we can say there is no impact of recession for that particular sector. -- volatility ; stock market and return …
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We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...
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We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...
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market volatility as measured by the VIX. Implying that investor purchase decisions are primarily driven by returns and sale …
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