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The Interactions between COVID-19 Cases in the USA, the VIX Index and Major Stock Markets
2021
With this study, we aimed to determine (1) the effect of the daily new cases and deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States on the CBOE volatility index (VIX index) and (2) the effect of the VIX index on the major stock markets during the early stage of the pandemic period. To do this, we collected and analysed the daily new cases and death numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic period in the United States and the country indexes of the USA (DJI), Germany (DAX), France (CAC40), England (FTSE100), Italy (MIB), China (SSEC) and Japan (Nikkei225) to determine the impact of the VIX index on the major stock markets. We then subjected this data to the Johansen co-integration test and …
Stock market information and the relationship between real exchange rate and real interest rates
2013
In this paper we propose to augment the traditional relationship between real exchange rates and real interest rates (RERI) by adding the stock market equilibrium condition to it. We introduce the relative dividend yield as the new information variable. In the empirical analysis we use recent monthly observations from the U.K., Japan, Canada and Eurozone, all relative to the U.S. We show that the introduction of stock market information is highly relevant for the functioning of the RERI hypothesis. Based on the results from the cointegration analysis the role of relative stock market performance is especially important in the short- term (3 month) horizon, where the augmented RERI represent…
Emerging Market Contagion Under Geopolitical Uncertainty
2019
We find that 10 emerging stock markets have high risk of contagion on the regional level but lower spillover with respect to the global markets, implying a potential for diversification benefits between emerging and global markets. Regional market integration seems to have been caused by trade integration, which has a policy implication for trade agreements’ systemic risk effects. We find that the geopolitical risk has no impact on either the return, or volatility spillovers. However, the general stock market risk (VIX) is connected to individual market volatilities, while the oil market is largely receiving the spillovers from the other markets. peerReviewed
Access to Finance: Baltic Financial Markets
2014
Abstract Access to finance is considered one of the main obstacles to successful financial market development. Access to finance was second-ranked most pressing problem faced by companies in the Euro Area and one of the main barriers to company's innovation capacity. The study results highlight the need to recognize that countries require sound and well-functioning financial markets. Only in this case financial markets can provide much needed sources of investments such as sound banking loans, properly regulated securities exchanges, venture capital, and other resources.
Timescale-dependent stock market comovement: BRICs vs. developed markets
2014
This paper examines the differences in the asset return comovement of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the other developed economies in their regions (Canada, Hong Kong and Australia) and the major industrialized economies (the U.K., Germany and Japan) with respect to the U.S. for different return periods. The novelty of the paper is that the stock return indices are decomposed to several timescales using wavelet analysis and that the results are further used as inputs for the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) framework, which is used as a measure of comovement. The results propose that the level of stock market comovement depends on regional aspects, the level of d…
Skewness in financial returns
1999
Abstract In this paper the symmetry of daily returns is addressed in eight international stock markets and three spot exchange rates. Tests of symmetry with the sample skewness seem of little value, due to the non-normality of the returns. Under alternative non-normal distributions, the symmetry of the returns cannot be rejected for most markets. Distribution-free procedures do not detect strong asymmetries in most of the series either; however, some differences between returns below the mean and returns over the mean are observed in several markets
International Exchanges in a Globalized World
2018
A reality today is that the economy, characterized by the expansion and development of financial mechanisms, cannot be conceived without the stock exchange: the real economy is reflected in the trend of stock, and, in turn, the stock can influence – good or bad – the economic life. Thus, by the rise of globalization, as instruments of capital accumulation, stock exchange has become the most effective way of targeting the capital available in the economy to the most profitable use. The market will determine which companies will be funded and what is the cost of their capital. The decisive factor is the efficiency with which companies use this capital. In this way, international stock markets…
Médias et sentiment sur les marchés actions européens : influence de la culture nationale
2018
Dans cet article, nous développons une nouvelle mesure du sentiment des investisseurs en Europe à partir d’une analyse de contenus d’articles issus du Financial Times. Dans la lignée des travaux de finance comportementale, nous trouvons que notre mesure du sentiment influence la performance boursière des entreprises difficiles à évaluer et à arbitrer. Par ailleurs, nous montrons que la culture nationale influence le lien entre sentiment des investisseurs et rentabilités boursières. L’impact du sentiment se révèle plus prononcé pour les pays les plus culturellement enclins à des comportements de sur-réaction ou grégaires.
Stock markets and quantum dynamics: A second quantized description
2009
In this paper we continue our description of stock markets in terms of some non-abelian operators which are used to describe the portfolio of the various traders and other observable quantities. After a first prototype model with only two traders, we discuss a more realistic model of market involving an arbitrary number of traders. For both models we find approximated solutions for the time evolution of the portfolio of each trader. In particular, for the more realistic model, we use the stochastic limit approach and a fixed point like approximation. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved