this paper empirically investigates the exchange rate effects of iranian rial against dollar (rial vs.us) on stock prices in iran. the sample period for the study has been taken from march 20, 2004 to march 20, 2010 using daily nominal exchange rate of rial /us and daily closing values of tehran stock exchange. generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (garch) model has been use...

capital asset pricing, as one of the basic theories in finance and investment area, develop a model for estimation of expected rate of return and equity cost of capital. this model has many applications in the field of finance. one of anomalies in the capital asset pricing model is the value premium that its proponents believe this risk premium is compensation for a risk not mentioned in origin...

modeling and analysis of future prices has been hot topic for economic analysts in recent years. traditionally, the complex movements in the prices are usually taken as random or stochastic process. however, they may be produced by a deterministic nonlinear process. accuracy and efficiency of economic models in the short period forecasting is strategic and crucial for business world. nonlinear ...

We have introduced an early warning system for volatility regimes regarding Tehran Stock Exchange using Markov Switching GARCH approach. We have examined whether Tehran Stock Market has calmed down or more specifically, whether the surge in volatility during 2007-2010 global financial crises still affects stock return volatility in Iran.  Doing so, we have used a regime switching GARCH model.  ...

We use high-frequency data of 1364 Chinese A-share stocks traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange to investigate the intraday patterns in the bid-ask spreads. The daily periodicity in the spread time series is confirmed by Lomb analysis and the intraday bid-ask spreads are found to exhibit L-shaped pattern with idiosyncratic fine structure. The intraday spread of indiv...

return and volatility spillovers are important for portfolio selection, asset valuation and market efficiency investigation. using a var-bekk framework model, this paper investigates return and volatility spillover effects between three size-sorted equity indices in tehran stock exchange (tse). although daily return of large stocks leads small stocks (lead-lag effect), there wasn’t any spillove...