PERFORMANCE OF SHARIAH VERSUS CONVENTIONAL FUNDS: LESSONS FROM EMERGING MARKETS

Liquidity and Expected Returns: Lessons from Emerging Markets

Given the cross-sectional and temporal variation in their liquidity, emerging equity markets provide an ideal setting to examine the impact of liquidity on expected returns. Our main liquidity measure is a transformation of the proportion of zero daily firm returns, averaged over the month. We find that it significantly predicts future returns, whereas alternative measures such as turnover do n...

Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: The Lessons from 1995

THE MEXICAN PESO crisis of December 1994, and its reverberations in the financial markets of developing countries around the world, has intensified the debate over the nature of balance of payments crises in developing countries. Many simple explanations have been given for the crisis and its aftermath, but none of them does very well at accounting for the main patterns of behavior in emerging ...

Emerging Markets and Entry by Actively Managed Funds

This paper investigates the incentives of investors to set up an actively managed fund in an emerging market or asset class. The analysis highlights the role of agency problems between fund managers and investors in determining this entry decision. It is shown that investors may wish to set up a fund in a new market, only when another fund is also active in that market. Fund entry into a new ma...

Performance measurements and impacts of privatization Performance measurement in emerging markets: Control privatization versus revenue privatization

Dynamic Linkages between Hedge Funds and Traditional Financial Assets: Evidence from Emerging Markets

This paper analyses the shortand long-term relationships between hedge funds and traditional financial assets for the main emerging market regions of Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe by using multivariate cointegration analysis. Because cointegrated assets are tied together over the long term, a portfolio consisting of these assets lowers uncertainty and should therefore be preferred by ...