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When regulating the financial system, the volatility phenomenon seems to emerge, practically, as a phenomenon which is intrinsic to the capital market behaviour. Theoretically, the leverage of the firms appears to be a major determinant of the volatility of prices and returns. At the same time,...
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, including contagion, flight to collateral, and swings in the issuance volume of the highest quality debt. We explain the …
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this crisis. During the Irish financial crisis from 2007 to 2010, strong contagion effects are uncovered between Irish … equity markets and the investigated European equity markets. The contagion effects are found to ease dramatically in the … intervention as a mechanism to mitigate and absorb contagion associated with state-specific financial crises and if possible …
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The current paper studies equity markets for the contagion of squared index returns as a proxy for stock market … squared stock returns of all 35 stock indices studied. Empirical findings show the evidence of contagion during the global … financial crisis (GFC) and Euro Zone crisis (EZC). The intensity of contagion varies depending on its sources. This implies that …
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of individual bond markets in recent years has been impressive, the threat of financial contagion to emerging Asian bond …
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risk of crashes in other stocks (or indices). Our paper explicitly takes this contagion risk into account and studies its … investor significantly adjusts his portfolio when contagion is more likely to occur. Capturing the time dimension of contagion … portfolio decisions. Investors ignoring contagion completely or accounting for contagion while ignoring its time dimension …
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We investigate the relation between global FX volatility and the excess returns to carry trade portfolios. We find a significantly negative return co-movement of high interest rate currencies with global volatility, whereas low interest rate currencies provide a hedge against volatility shocks....
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In this paper, we compare the equity returns of dividend-paying and non-dividend paying firms. We find no unconditional return difference even though non-dividend paying firms have many characteristics that suggest high risk. Equivalently, because non-dividend paying firms have high...
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ABSTRACT:The present paper analyses the relationship between the volume of transactions with futuresequity index products and the return volatility of their underlying assets. The study addressesthe case of five stock markets, members of the Euronext.liffe. We employ a frequency domainanalysis...
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Although the main interest in the modelling of electricity prices is often on volatility aspects, we argue that stochastic heteroskedastic behaviour in prices can only be modelled correctly when the conditional mean of the time series is properly modelled. In this paper we consider different...
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