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Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Volume 12, Issue 1

March 2019 - 49 articles

Cover Story: The discussion of Bitcoin market efficiency remains an unresolved problem—a number of papers arguing in favor or against have emerged recently. The work by Shintate and Pichl in this issue develops a classification framework, based on deep learning algorithms, to predict the market trend. While exceeding the baseline random odds, and thus violating the strong--form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoin time series data from the OkCoin market between 2014 and 2017, a classification algorithm outperforming the Bitcoin market bubble formation in the past remains to be found. View this paper.
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,759 Views
29 Pages

We examine the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system for the identification of participants in financial markets. Semi-structured interviews with data professionals revealed the many ways in which the LEI can improve both business process effic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,850 Views
19 Pages

This paper analyzes the mean reversion property on the west African stock market (in French, Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières BRVM). For this purpose, we use two daily indices: (i) the composite index (BRVMC) and (ii) the index o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
36,226 Views
22 Pages

Developments in Risk Management in Islamic Finance: A Review

  • Naseem Al Rahahleh,
  • M. Ishaq Bhatti and
  • Faridah Najuna Misman

The purpose of this study is to review recent developments pertaining to risk management in Islamic banking and finance literature. The study explores the fundamental features of risks associated with Islamic banks (IBs) as compared to those associat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
13,160 Views
20 Pages

Bitcoin at High Frequency

  • Leopoldo Catania and
  • Mads Sandholdt

This paper studies the behaviour of Bitcoin returns at different sample frequencies. We consider high frequency returns starting from tick-by-tick price changes traded at the Bitstamp and Coinbase exchanges. We find evidence of a smooth intra-daily s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,841 Views
21 Pages

This study discusses the institutional investors’ shareholding base on corporate governance system in Taiwan. The sample was 4760 Taiwanese companies from 2005 to 2012. Then, this study established six hypotheses to investigate the effects of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,114 Views
18 Pages

In this study, I apply a quantile regression model to investigate how gold returns respond to changes in various financial indicators. The model quantifies the asymmetric response of gold return in the tails of the distribution based on weekly data o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,200 Views
19 Pages

Tax Competitiveness of the New EU Member States

  • Askoldas Podviezko,
  • Lyudmila Parfenova and
  • Andrey Pugachev

This paper investigates tax competitiveness among the EU member countries. The tax competition of countries causes both positive and negative effects on macroeconomic processes such as the effectiveness of government spending, the rationality of supp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
22,217 Views
18 Pages

Over the past three decades, China and India have attained economic power close to that of Japan and the U.S. During this period, the importance of the derivatives market within the financial market has been widely recognized. However, little support...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
26,294 Views
15 Pages

Statistical Arbitrage in Cryptocurrency Markets

  • Thomas Günter Fischer,
  • Christopher Krauss and
  • Alexander Deinert

Machine learning research has gained momentum—also in finance. Consequently, initial machine-learning-based statistical arbitrage strategies have emerged in the U.S. equities markets in the academic literature, see e.g., Takeuchi and Lee (2013)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,447 Views
17 Pages

Research analysis of small enterprises are still rare, due to lack of individual level data. Small enterprise failures are connected not only with their financial situation abut also with non-financial factors. In recent research we tend to apply mor...

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