Do financial and non-financial stocks hedge against lockdown in Covid-19? An event study analysis

Using Financial Derivatives to Hedge Against Market

Do Hedge Funds Outperform Stocks and Bonds?

H funds’ extensive use of derivatives, short selling, and leverage and their dynamic trading strategies create significant nonnormalities in their return distributions. Hence, the traditional performance measures fail to provide an accurate characterization of the relative strength of hedge fund portfolios. This paper uses the utility-based nonparametric and parametric performance measures to d...

The Battle Against COVID-19: Where Do We Stand Now?

An Analysis of the Repeated Financial Earthquakes

Since the seismic behavior of the earth’s energy (which follows from the power law distribution) can be similarly seen in the energy realized by the stock markets, in this paper we consider a statistical study for comparing the financial crises and the earthquakes. For this end, the TP statistic, proposed by Pisarenko and et al. (2004), is employed for estimating the critical point or the lower...

Using SVM with Financial Statement Analysis for Prediction of Stocks

At present, there are many technical analyses for prediction in stock market. However, the technical indices are fluctuated with the quantity of stock exchanges. The financial indices are more reliable, nonvolatile and valid compared with the technical indices. In this paper, we propose an original and universal method by using SVM with financial statement analysis for prediction of stocks. We ...