This paper investigates the statistical properties of stock returns in the West African regional stock market and the link between the West African regional stock market and economic growth. To examine the nature of the distribution of West African regional stock returns, the daily closing prices of the two stock index of West African regional stock market, and eighteen of it sub-indices were u...

This research studies the moderating effect of country-specific social connectedness on the relation between financial literacy and stock market participation. This is done by using the extensive and multi-country SHARE data. The positive relation between financial literacy and stock market participation is reconfirmed. Moreover, the findings show that country-specific social connectedness sign...

Stock price prediction is an important and challenging problem in stock market analysis. Existing prediction methods either exploit autocorrelation of stock price and its correlation with the supply and demand of stock, or explore predictive indictors exogenous to stock market. In this paper, using transaction record of stocks with identifier of traders, we introduce an index to characterize ma...

This paper studies the use of social simulation in linking micro level investor behaviour and macro level stock market dynamics. Empirical data from a survey on individual investors' decision-making and social interaction was used to formalize the trading and interaction rules of the agents of the artificial stock market SimStockExchange. Multiple simulation runs were performed with this artifi...

the development of the cyprus stock exchange together with the increasing trend of investors’ presence in financing activities has led to the importance of this market. in such circumstances, the first step towards a sustainable development of the exchange is to support the investors. risk of bankruptcy for the investee is a major challenge that an inexperienced stock investor encounters. in th...

The interaction of BRICS stock markets with the United States is studied using an asymmetric Granger causality test based on the frequency domain. This type of analysis allows for both positive and negative shocks over different horizons. There is a clear bivariate causality that runs both ways between the United States stock market and the respective BRICS markets. In addition, both negative a...

This paper proposes an estimation method of time-varying beta of price limits. It uses China stock market trading data to estimate time-varying beta and researches on systemic risk in China stock market. By comparing prediction errors of market model, SS market model, and Censored-SS market model, it verifies the effectiveness of Censored-SS market model. Furthermore it has some meaningful conc...

Stock market prediction is a technique of predicting the future value of the stock markets on the basis of the current and the previous information available in the market.Stock market prediction is an important issue for investigating in academic and financial research. There are various techniques available for the prediction of the stock market value. Here in this paper a survey of all the t...