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International Journal of Financial Studies, Volume 6, Issue 3

September 2018 - 22 articles

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Articles (22)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,035 Views
19 Pages

Municipal Bond Pricing: A Data Driven Method

  • Natraj Raman and
  • Jochen L. Leidner

Price evaluations of municipal bonds have traditionally been performed by human experts based on their market knowledge and trading experience. Automated evaluation is an attractive alternative providing the advantage of an objective estimation that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,869 Views
28 Pages

In response to the financial crisis, a number of reforms to bank regulation have been introduced. Many of these reforms seek to improve the resilience of banks through making changes to their structure. In the U.K., the Banking Reform Act 2013 was en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,686 Views
14 Pages

The buy and hold stock market strategy, which gained tremendous popularity in the 1970s, may no longer be such a profitable method for accumulating wealth for the average investor in the new millennium. This paper investigates the relationship betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,364 Views
19 Pages

How Do Investment Banks Price Initial Public Offerings? An Empirical Analysis of Emerging Market

  • Abdul Rasheed,
  • Muhammad Khalid Sohail,
  • Shahab-Ud Din and
  • Muhammad Ijaz

This study investigates that how investment banks select alternative valuation models to price Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and examine the value-relevance of each valuation model using the data of 88 IPOs listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,790 Views
21 Pages

This study investigated bank-specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability in Azerbaijan, an oil-dependent economy in transition. A huge drop in oil prices, a significant devaluation of the national currency, and the financial distres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,405 Views
12 Pages

Are These Shocks for Real? Sensitivity Analysis of the Significance of the Wavelet Response to Some CKLS Processes

  • Somayeh Kokabisaghi,
  • Eric J. Pauwels,
  • Katrien Van Meulder and
  • André B. Dorsman

The CKLS process (introduced by Chan, Karolyi, Longstaff, and Sanders) is a typical example of a mean-reverting process. It combines random fluctuations with an elastic attraction force that tends to restore the process to a central value. As such, i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,595 Views
23 Pages

This paper studies an optimal trading problem that incorporates the trader’s market view on the terminal asset price distribution and uninformative noise embedded in the asset price dynamics. We model the underlying asset price evolution by an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,730 Views
15 Pages

Development Initiatives, Micro-Enterprise Performance and Sustainability

  • Wan Nurulasiah binti Wan Mustapa,
  • Abdullah Al Mamun and
  • Mohamed Dahlan Ibrahim

Towards improving the socio-economic condition of low-income households, development organizations offer a repertoire of initiatives. This study focused on the impacts of access to working capital and enterprise development training programs, on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,210 Views
22 Pages

Brexit, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU), has led to significant exchange rate fluctuations and to uncertainty in financial markets and in UK–EU trade relations. In this article, we use a non-linear model t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,570 Views
18 Pages

This study investigates the impact of commodity price volatility (including soft commodities, precious metals, industrial metals, and energy) on the dynamics of corporate sukuk returns. Using a sample of sukuk indices from Gulf Cooperation Council (G...

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Int. J. Financial Stud. - ISSN 2227-7072