Currency and Stock Exchanges: on the Efficiency Shoals

Weak Form Efficiency of Selected Asian Stock Exchanges

The concept of efficient market hypothesis is important to better understand the functioning of the capital markets. The efficiency of the emerging markets assumes greater importance as the trend of investments is accelerating in these markets as a result of regulatory reforms and removal of other barriers for the international equity investments. This paper examines the weak form of the effici...

Transfer of price returns in the markets, gold, stock exchanges and housing Considering the liquidity ratio.

Examining the transfer of returns in the markets helps analysts to identify the reasons for the movement of liquidity ratio between the markets. In this study, the monthly data of the gold market price index, housing, stock exchange and the currency has been used in Iran for the past twenty years. Investigating the interactions between price returns The stock market, housing, currency and gol...

“Price-Quakes” Shaking the World's Stock Exchanges

BACKGROUND Systemic risk has received much more awareness after the excessive risk taking by major financial instituations pushed the world's financial system into what many considered a state of near systemic failure in 2008. The IMF for example in its yearly 2009 Global Financial Stability Report acknowledged the lack of proper tools and research on the topic. Understanding how disruptions ca...

Stock Exchanges and Issuers: A Changing Relationship

The impact of DDoS and other security shocks on Bitcoin currency exchanges: evidence from Mt. Gox

We investigate how distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and other disruptions affect the Bitcoin ecosystem. In particular, we investigate the impact of shocks on trading activity at the leading Mt. Gox exchange between April 2011 and November 2013. We find that following DDoS attacks on Mt. Gox, the number of large trades on the exchange fell sharply. In particular, the distribution of ...