Although gold is no longer a central cornerstone of the international monetary and financial system, it still attracts considerable attention from researchers and investors. Nowadays, many investors manage their risk with valuable assets such as gold. This paper examines the dynamic relationships between gold and stock markets in the Tehran Stock Exchange. We have applied the Markov switching m...

We propose a graphical method to visualize possible time-varying correlations between stock market returns. The method can be useful for observing stable or emerging clusters of stock markets with similar behavior. The graphs, which originate from applying multidiŽ . mensional scaling techniques MDS , may also guide the construction of multivariate econometric models. We illustrate our method f...

This paper uses the Singapore and the Thailand’s stock prices of material from January 4, 2000 to July 20, 2007, discussing the model construction and their associations of between Singapore and Thailand’s stock markets, and also uses Student's t distribution to analyze the proposed model. The empirical results show that the mutual affects of the Singapore and the Thailand’s stock markets may c...

the present study aimed at investigating the existence of long memory properties in ten emerging stock markets across the globe. when return series exhibit long memory, it indicates that observed returns are not independent over time. if returns are not independent, past returns can help predict future returns, thereby violating the market efficiency hypothesis. it poses a serious challenge to ...

Taking an institution-based view, we investigate how entrepreneurs respond to immature regulatory environments in order to be listed on stock markets in countries with an emerging economy. Unlike stock markets in developed countries, in emerging markets, gaining government approval for listing is a critical and more unpredictable process for entrepreneurs. Hence, entrepreneurs who are preparing...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C22 E44 G11 Keywords: Causality Rank test Threshold error-correction model (TECM) Wealth effect Credit price effect Using the non-parametric rank tests proposed by Breitung (2001), we set out in this study to determine whether any non-linear long-run equilibrium relationship exists between the stock and real estate markets of Western European countries....

The technological mutations of recent years have profoundly disrupted the design and structure of stock markets with the development and multiplication of electronic platforms: electronic communication networks (ECN) and alternative transaction systems (ATS). These technological innovations have brought about serious changes in the access to and processing of financial information, in brokerage...

Price limit trading rules are adopted in some stock markets (especially emerging markets) trying to cool off traders' short-term trading mania on individual stocks and increase market efficiency. Under such a microstructure, stocks may hit their up-limits and down-limits from time to time. However, the behaviors of price limit hits are not well studied partially due to the fact that main stock ...

Structural shifts characterize the volatility of the Korean stock and foreign exchange markets during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This paper employs an unrestricted bivariate GARCH-M model of stock market returns to investigate empirically the effects of daily currency depreciation on Korean stock market returns. The evidence shows that currency depreciation significantly affects stock mar...

Stock markets are very important in modern societies and their behaviour have serious implications in a wide spectrum of the world’s population. Investors, governing bodies and the society as a whole could benefit from better understanding of the behaviour of stock markets. The traditional approach to analyze such systems is the use of analytical models. However, the complexity of financial mar...