As the Stock index futures with Cri 300 index for the subject matter launch, the research to stock options done by China’s financial market is gradually in-depth, which has great significance to the improvement of the financial markets. With the Black-Scholes option formula, this paper attempts to study the sensitivity of single stock’ call option named Industrial and Commercial Bank of China L...

On June 29, 2010, Taiwan signed an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China as a major step to open markets between Taiwan and China. Thus, the ECFA will contribute by creating a closer relationship between China and Taiwan through economic and market interactions. Co-movements of the world’s national financial market indexes are a popular research topic in the finance literat...

This study documents the asset pricing mechanism of Sharīʿah compliant securities listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. We select the CAPM market model to test for the impact in variations of stock returns on a sample of Sharīʿah-compliant companies on ten years monthly data (2001-10). We first test the basic CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model) and its modified form known as the Sharīʿah-complia...

this study examined the relationship between market monitoring cost consist the business disclosure index, the index of perception of corruption, rule of law and regulations quality, and also pointed out the technology index and exercise price limit rules that are in stock. in this research the relationship between the above indicators to price limit rules applied during the period 2005-2010 in...

The use of intelligent systems for stock market predictions has been widely established. In this paper, we investigate how the seemingly chaotic behavior of stock markets could be well-represented using ensemble of intelligent paradigms. To demonstrate the proposed technique, we considered Nasdaq-100 index of Nasdaq Stock Market and the S&P CNX NIFTY stock index. The intelligent paradigms consi...

This paper examines the correlation between the relative financial strength of public firms and their stock price performance. By using financial information obtained from the firms’ publicly available financial statement as inputs and outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis (CCR model), a relative financial strength of a firm is determined relative to other competing firms operating in the same m...

The stock market, which has been investigated by various researchers, is a very complicated environment. So far, most of the research only concerned the quantitative factors, like index in open or volume, instead of qualitative factors, say political effect. However, the latter always plays a very important role in the stock market environment. Therefore, this research proposes illl intelligent...

With the expansion of stock market, investors and capital are increasing step by step, which makes the stock market an increasing impact on the macro-economy. In order to reveal the effect of macro factors on the specified industry’s stock price, a new nonlinear regression model is established with Eviews6.0 software in the paper. We take macro variables as samples which are based on interest r...

This paper examines the relationships among Hangseng index and its related derivatives in a bear market. The Johansen Co-integration and vector error correction model are used to analyze the relationships between markets. The main results are as follows: 1) The lead-lag relationships show that Hangseng index futures and option markets play a more important price discovery role; 2) The pricing e...