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Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Volume 12, Issue 2

2019 June - 56 articles

Cover Story: Liquidity benefits of a European sovereign bond-backed securitization are assessed. This is done by measuring the effectiveness of hedging by market makers to cover positions in individual euro area sovereign bonds using tranches of the proposed securitization. Optimal hedging reduces risk exposures substantially in normal market conditions. In volatile conditions, hedging is not so effective, but doing so leaves dealers exposed to mostly idiosyncratic risks. These risks largely disappear when diversified across country-specific secondary markets and tranches. Hedging long positions in a portfolio of individual sovereigns results in risk exposure as low as holding the safest sovereign bond (the Bund). View this paper.
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Articles (56)

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,747 Views
18 Pages

This paper conducts a review of the literature on the price–volume relationship and its relation with the implications of the adaptive market hypothesis. The literature on market efficiency is classified as efficient market hypothesis (EMH) studies o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
26,956 Views
15 Pages

Next-Day Bitcoin Price Forecast

  • Ziaul Haque Munim,
  • Mohammad Hassan Shakil and
  • Ilan Alon

This study analyzes forecasts of Bitcoin price using the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and neural network autoregression (NNAR) models. Employing the static forecast approach, we forecast next-day Bitcoin price both with and withou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,425 Views
13 Pages

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether there is an optimal cash holding ratio, in which firm’s performance can be maximized. The threshold regression model is applied to test the threshold effect of the cash holding ratio on fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,089 Views
15 Pages

When the Poor Buy the Rich: New Evidence on Wealth Effects of Cross-Border Acquisitions

  • Hong-Hai Ho,
  • Thi-Hanh Vu,
  • Ngoc-Tien Dao,
  • Manh-Tung Ho and
  • Quan-Hoang Vuong

The growing trend of merging and acquisition (M&A) investments from emerging to developed market economies over the last two decades motivates the question on the long-run effects of M&A on the wealth of emerging markets. This paper contribut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,824 Views
26 Pages

This study investigates the impact of exchange rate misalignment on outward capital flight in Botswana over the period 1980–2015. The study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration and the Toda and Yamamoto (1995...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,188 Views
15 Pages

Financial Structure, Misery Index, and Economic Growth: Time Series Empirics from Pakistan

  • Nianyong Wang,
  • Muhammad Haroon Shah,
  • Kishwar Ali,
  • Shah Abbas and
  • Sami Ullah

This study empirically analyzes the impact of the financial structure and misery index on economic growth in Pakistan. We adopted Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) for a co-integration approach to the data analysis and used time series data from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,056 Views
15 Pages

The aim of this paper is to study the integration of volatility in the three markets, viz. spot, futures and options, in order to provide input for hedging purposes and the formulation of policies for derivatives. The generalized method of moments (G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,294 Views
25 Pages

We studied the dependence structure between West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices and the exchange rates of BRICS1 countries, using copula models. We used the Normal, Plackett, rotated-Gumbel, and Student’s t copulas to measure the constant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,750 Views
52 Pages

AdTurtle: An Advanced Turtle Trading System

  • Dimitrios Vezeris,
  • Ioannis Karkanis and
  • Themistoklis Kyrgos

For this research, we implemented a trading system based on the Turtle rules and examined its efficiency when trading selected assets from the Forex, Metals, Commodities, Energy and Cryptocurrency Markets using historical data. Afterwards, we enhance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
24,507 Views
22 Pages

Stock Investment and Excess Returns: A Critical Review in the Light of the Efficient Market Hypothesis

  • Qianwei Ying,
  • Tahir Yousaf,
  • Qurat ul Ain,
  • Yasmeen Akhtar and
  • Muhammad Shahid Rasheed

The expansion of investment strategies and capital markets is altering the significance and empirical rationality of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. The vitality of capital markets is essential for efficiency research. The authors explore here the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,775 Views
18 Pages

The current paper studies equity markets for the contagion of squared index returns as a proxy for stock market volatility, which has not been studied earlier. The study examines squared stock index returns of equity in 35 markets, including the US,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,969 Views
15 Pages

Default Risk and Cross Section of Returns

  • Nusret Cakici,
  • Sris Chatterjee and
  • Ren-Raw Chen

Prior research uses the basic one-period European call-option pricing model to compute default measures for individual firms and concludes that both the size and book-to-market effects are related to default risk. For example, small firms earn higher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,762 Views
10 Pages

Is Bitcoin a Relevant Predictor of Standard & Poor’s 500?

  • Camilla Muglia,
  • Luca Santabarbara and
  • Stefano Grassi

The paper investigates whether Bitcoin is a good predictor of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. To answer this question we compare alternative models using a point and density forecast relying on Dynamic Model Averaging (DMA) and Dynamic Mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,036 Views
16 Pages

The choice and structure of a country’s exchange rate regime has wide implications for the effectiveness and flexibility of monetary policy tools, as well as for economic and financial stability. We examine 21 instances where exchange rate pegs...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,052 Views
30 Pages

To search significant variables which can illustrate the abnormal return of stock price, this research is generally based on the Fama-French five-factor model to develop a multi-factor model. We evaluated the existing factors in the empirical study o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,815 Views
29 Pages

This paper provides global evidence supporting the hypothesis that expected return models are enhanced by the inclusion of variables that describe the evolution of book-to-market—changes in book value, changes in price, and net share issues. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,546 Views
28 Pages

Credit Scoring in SME Asset-Backed Securities: An Italian Case Study

  • Andrea Bedin,
  • Monica Billio,
  • Michele Costola and
  • Loriana Pelizzon

We investigate the default probability, recovery rates and loss distribution of a portfolio of securitised loans granted to Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). To this end, we use loan level data information provided by the European DataWare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,608 Views
21 Pages

Threshold Stochastic Conditional Duration Model for Financial Transaction Data

  • Zhongxian Men,
  • Adam W. Kolkiewicz and
  • Tony S. Wirjanto

This paper proposes a variant of a threshold stochastic conditional duration (TSCD) model for financial data at the transaction level. It assumes that the innovations of the duration process follow a threshold distribution with a positive support. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,309 Views
13 Pages

This study employs generalized method of moments (GMM) for dynamic panel data models to deal with the nature of banking behaviour, aiming at investigating the impact of bank equity on the risk and return of Vietnamese commercial banks during the peri...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,156 Views
17 Pages

Secondary Market Liquidity and Primary Market Pricing of Corporate Bonds

  • Michael A. Goldstein,
  • Edith S. Hotchkiss and
  • David J. Pedersen

This paper studies the link between secondary market liquidity for a corporate bond and the bond’s yield spread at issuance. Using ex-ante measures of expected liquidity at the time of issuance, based on the characteristics of the underwriting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,373 Views
14 Pages

This paper investigates how investor sentiment affects stock market returns and evaluates the predictability power of sentiment indices on U.S. and EU stock market returns. As regards the American example, evidence shows that investor sentiment indic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,206 Views
17 Pages

Since the appearance of persistent research finding a disconnection between the exchange rate and its macroeconomic fundamentals, the empirical debate has not stopped. Studies employ various methods to explain the presence of the exchange rate discon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,740 Views
15 Pages

In this article, inspired by Shi et al., we investigate the optimal portfolio selection with one risk-free asset and one risky asset in a multiple period setting under the cumulative prospect theory (CPT) risk criterion. Compared with their study, ou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,558 Views
26 Pages

The effect of corporate diversification on firm performance has been extensively documented in the literature. In the general finance literature, Kuppuswamy and Villalonga (2015) studied the diversification effect during the 2007–2009 financial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,151 Views
14 Pages

Monetary policies and adjustments during a financial crisis depend on policy-makers’ conceptions on what money is and how it works. There is sufficient consensus among scholars that money is an institution created within the economic system and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,744 Views
16 Pages

This paper aims to test the adaptive market hypothesis in the two main Vietnamese stock exchanges, namely Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HSX) and Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX), by measuring the relationship between current stock returns and historical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
27,306 Views
17 Pages

This paper tests whether the traditional futures hedge ratio (hT) and the carry cost rate futures hedge ratio (hc) vary in accordance with the Sercu and Wu (2000) and Leistikow et al. (2019) “hc” theory. It does so, both within and across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,054 Views
19 Pages

Do Diamond Stocks Shine Brighter than Diamonds?

  • Vera Jotanovic and
  • Rita Laura D’Ecclesia

This paper addresses two practical investment questions: Is investing in the diamond equity market a more feasible and liquid alternative to investing in diamonds? Additionally, is diamond equity affected by polished diamond prices? We assemble an or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,123 Views
14 Pages

This paper develops a new methodology in order to study the role of dynamic expectations. Neither reference-point theories nor feedback models are sufficient to describe human expectations in a dynamic market environment. We use an interdisciplinary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,305 Views
17 Pages

The exchange rate is one of the most monitored economic variables reflecting the state of the economy in the long run, while affecting it significantly in the short run. However, prediction of the exchange rate is very complicated. In this contributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,684 Views
20 Pages

Currency crises are a significant feature of the present-day world economy, in which financial transactions are many times larger than monetary flows in the “real economy”, so that defending a currency’s exchange-rate is a major cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,841 Views
13 Pages

This paper introduces Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Long Memory Stock Transaction Data of unknown underlying distribution. The moments with conditional heteroscedasticity have been discussed. In a Monte Carlo experiment, it was found that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,608 Views
32 Pages

The objective of the study was to predict the future performance of banks based on the contextual information provided in annual reports. The European Central Bank has observed that performance prediction models in earlier studies mainly rely on quan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,896 Views
27 Pages

The trend towards eliminating defined benefit (DB) pension plans in favour of defined contribution (DC) plans implies that increasing numbers of pension plan participants will bear the risk that final realized portfolio values may be insufficient to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,680 Views
18 Pages

This study examines the managerial power-hypothesis of selective hedging, which holds that selective hedging is observed more frequently in companies where managers have greater latitude to execute hedging proposals without serious scrutiny or questi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,316 Views
34 Pages

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology is used in this study for a comparison of the dynamic efficiency of European countries over the last decade. Moreover, efficiency analysis is used to determine where resources are distributed efficiently an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,371 Views
21 Pages

It is argued that the growth in the breadth of option strikes traded after the financial crisis of 2008 poses difficulties for the use of Fourier inversion methodologies in volatility surface calibration. Continuous time Markov chain approximations a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,213 Views
11 Pages

The Impact of Algorithmic Trading in a Simulated Asset Market

  • Purba Mukerji,
  • Christine Chung,
  • Timothy Walsh and
  • Bo Xiong

In this work we simulate algorithmic trading (AT) in asset markets to clarify its impact. Our markets consist of human and algorithmic counterparts of traders that trade based on technical and fundamental analysis, and statistical arbitrage strategie...

  • Review
  • Open Access
93 Citations
21,686 Views
17 Pages

This study conducts a systematic survey on whether the pricing behavior of cryptocurrencies is predictable. Thus, the Efficient Market Hypothesis is rejected and speculation is feasible via trading. We center interest on the Rescaled Range (R/S) and...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,416 Views
7 Pages

Persistently high negative covariances between risky assets and hedging instruments are intended to mitigate against risk and subsequent financial losses. In the event of having more than one hedging instrument, multivariate covariances need to be ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,677 Views
21 Pages

The federal crop insurance program covered more than 110 billion dollars in total liability in 2018. The program consists of policies across a wide range of crops, plans, and locations. Weather and other latent variables induce dependence among compo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,394 Views
17 Pages

After the global financial crisis, the Japanese government enacted the Financing Facilitation Act in 2009 to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that had fallen into unprofitable conditions. Under this law, when troubled debtors asked fina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,266 Views
16 Pages

This paper extends Horowitz’s smoothed maximum score estimator to discrete-time duration models. The estimator’s consistency and asymptotic distribution are derived. Monte Carlo simulations using various data generating processes with var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
19,021 Views
19 Pages

This study investigates the relationship between firms’ competition, wage, CEOs’ characteristics, and firm performance (measured by net income per employee, return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE)) of Vietnam’s 693 listed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,480 Views
25 Pages

This paper contributes to the debate concerning the benefits and disadvantages of introducing a European Sovereign Bond-Backed Securitisation (SBBS) to address the need for a common safe asset that would break destabilising bank-sovereign linkages. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,044 Views
26 Pages

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to improve significantly on the estimated call prices obtained with the regression and simulation-based least-squares Monte Carlo method by using put-call symmetry. The results show that, for a large sample...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,478 Views
15 Pages

China and the international monetary system need each other. The international monetary system is strained, with crisis just around the corner, yet reform is not on anyone’s agenda. Meanwhile China, deeply invested in the current system, faces...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,087 Views
9 Pages

In order to hedge efficiently, persistently high negative covariances or, equivalently, correlations, between risky assets and the hedging instruments are intended to mitigate against financial risk and subsequent losses. If there is more than one he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,869 Views
20 Pages

Spillover Effects of US QE and QE Tapering on African and Middle Eastern Stock Indices

  • Stephanos Papadamou,
  • Nikolaos A. Kyriazis and
  • Panayiotis G. Tzeremes

In this paper, we study spillover effects on the stock markets of six African and nine Middle Eastern emerging economies before, during, and after the implementation of unconventional monetary policies by the United States Federal Reserve (US Fed). W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
16,726 Views
17 Pages

Purpose: This study aims to compare the prediction accuracy of traditional distress prediction models for the firms which are at an early and advanced stage of distress in an emerging market, Pakistan, during 2001–2015. Design/methodology/approach: T...

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