Testing for Over-Reaction and Under-Reaction in Chinese Shanghai Composite Index Constituent Stocks and Australian Resource Stocks

Discovering Pattern Associations in Hang Seng Index Constituent Stocks

The problem of finding patterns in financial time series has been tackled by systematic observations of trends, statistical analysis or the use of artificial intelligence techniques in trend analysis. These techniques are more for the discovering of patterns in data rather than the understanding of association relationships between the discovered patterns. As time series patterns often overlap ...

Coupling Index and Stocks

In this paper, we are interested in continuous time models in which the index level induces some feedback on the dynamics of its composing stocks. More precisely, we propose a model in which the log-returns of each stock may be decomposed into a systemic part proportional to the log-returns of the index plus an idiosyncratic part. We show that, when the number of stocks in the index is large, t...

Information Flow between Composite Stock Index and Individual Stocks

We investigate the strength and the direction of information transfer in the U.S. stock market between the composite stock price index of stock market and prices of individual stocks using the transfer entropy. Through the directionality of the information transfer, we find that individual stocks are influenced by the index of the market.

Price reaction of ethically screened stocks : A study of the Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index

This paper investigates the short-term effects on the price of the ethically screened stocks of the Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index (DJIMWI) quarterly revisions. Using a sample of 8,250 stocks from May 1999 through June 2012, we find a significant price reaction of the ethically screened stocks following additions and deletions. The results show that additions (deletions) from emerging sto...

Understanding under- and over-reaction