Abstract This paper focuses on emerging market government bonds issued in local currency with different maturities. Foreign investors face interest rate, currency, and credit risks. We consider the entire term structure of carry trade returns find that, while default premium does not contribute to strategies, contribution rate risk, captured by premium, is large increases maturity. introduce ri...

We characterise the probability distributions of various categories gross capital flows conditional on information contained in financial asset prices a panel emerging market economies, with focus ‘tail’ events. Our framework, based quantile regression methodology, allows for separate role push- and pull-type factors, because it is high-frequency data, can quantify likelihood different outturns...

The behavior of exchange rate in various exchange markets is not seemingly predictable, while there are different forecasting methods to do so. One of these methods is to use fractals to identify exchange rate behavior. This paper has made attempts to explore the properties of fractals in Iran’s exchange market in order to it can predict and analyze the trend of exchange rate. Accordingly, th...

هدف: با توجه به اهمیت سرمایه­‌های انسانی سازمان و ویژه استعدادها عنوان مهم­ترین ابزار کسب مزیت رقابتی، هدف از انجام این پژوهش ارائه مدلی برای مدیریت استعداد در صنعت خودرو است.طراحی/ روش‌شناسی/ رویکرد: پژوهش، صورت ترکیبی اکتشافی (کیفی-کمی) شده است. فاز کیفی، اجزای یک مدل روش تحلیل تم شناسایی شد. کمی، اجزاء روابط استخراج استفاده مدلسازی معادلات ساختاری، مورد ارزیابی قرار گرفت تا متغیرهای مرتبط ار...

We examine herding behavior of domestic and foreign investors in the Indonesian stock market. We document that both domestic and foreign investors from a particular brokerage firm tend to herd. The foreign investors exhibit a greater propensity to herd than domestic investors. However, when examining investor trading across brokerage firms, we find only weak evidence of herding by domestic inve...

This paper presents a simultaneous model of exchange rates between the US dollar, German mark and Japanese yen. In addition to incorporating long-run equilibria and short-run dynamics, the model is designed to capture complex interaction between currencies not normally considered in exchange rate models. The model is demonstrated to be an economically and statistically superior forecasting tool...

We investigate the effect of a stock market liberalization on industry growth in emerging markets. Consistent with the view that liberalization reduces financing constraints, we find that industries that are more externally dependent and face better growth opportunities grew faster following liberalization. However, this growth increase appears to come from an expansion in the size of existing ...

Article history: Received 9 March 2007 Accepted 9 July 2008 Available online 12 October 2008 We examine four European stock indices and the prices of eight major German stocks for indications of psychological barriers. The frequency, (expected) returns, intraday volatility and trading volume of these assets are studied contingent on whether the prices lie within a certain range around round num...

The finance literature documents the relation between labor income and the crosssection of stock returns. A possible explanation is the hedging of investors with relative wealth concerns who pay a premium for securities that help them to keep up with their peers. Relative wealth concerns imply a local effect and a negative risk premium associated with the risk factor, since investors are willin...

In this analysis the interdependence between foreign exchange markets and stock markets for selected accession and cohesion countries is discussed. This includes basic theoretical approaches. Monthly data for the nominal stock market indices and nominal exchange rates are used, where Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Hungary are included in the analysis. Fr...