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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,431 Views
18 Pages

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Energy Prices: Empirical Evidence from Multivariate DCC-GARCH Models

  • Salim Hamza Ringim,
  • Abdulkareem Alhassan,
  • Hasan Güngör and
  • Festus Victor Bekun

18 May 2022

Crude oil and natural gas are crucial to the Russian economy. Therefore, this study examined the interconnections between crude oil price, natural gas price, and Russian economic policy uncertainty (EPU) over the period 1994–2019 using multivar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,081 Views
26 Pages

18 April 2012

In the increasingly globalized economy these days, the major crude oil markets worldwide are seeing higher level of integration, which results in higher level of dependency and transmission of risks among different markets. Thus the risk of the typic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,566 Views
14 Pages

26 June 2015

In this paper, we propose a new entropy-optimized bivariate empirical mode decomposition (BEMD)-based model for estimating portfolio value at risk (PVaR). It reveals and analyzes different components of the price fluctuation. These components are dec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,734 Views
22 Pages

Over the past years, cryptocurrencies have drawn substantial attention from the media while attracting many investors. Since then, cryptocurrency prices have experienced high fluctuations. In this paper, we forecast the high-frequency 1 min volatilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,903 Views
23 Pages

Spatial Multivariate GARCH Models and Financial Spillovers

  • Rosella Giacometti,
  • Gabriele Torri,
  • Kamonchai Rujirarangsan and
  • Michela Cameletti

We estimate the risk spillover among European banks from equity log-return data via Conditional Value at Risk (CoVaR). The joint dynamic of returns is modeled with a spatial DCC-GARCH which allows the conditional variance of log-returns of each bank...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,272 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2024

The extent of correlation or co-movement among the returns of developed and emerging stock markets remains pivotal for efficiently diversifying global portfolios. This correlation is prone to variation over time as a consequence of escalating economi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,563 Views
23 Pages

9 January 2019

A decade after the global financial crisis, the developments in stock market integration have increased the stability and liquidity of markets, and decreased the diversification benefits for investors. International trade is an important determinant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,115 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2023

The modeling and forecasting of dynamically varying covariances has received a great deal of attention in the literature. The two most widely used conditional covariances and correlations models are BEKK and the DCC. In this paper, we advance a new m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
383 Views
23 Pages

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of some defensive assets inside global stock portfolios by applying a standard VaR approach to daily data from 2021 to 2024. The 5Y US note is by far the best hedging instrument for single-hedged portfolios, whil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,597 Views
14 Pages

Volatility Spillover and International Contagion of Housing Bubbles

  • Jean-Louis Bago,
  • Koffi Akakpo,
  • Imad Rherrad and
  • Ernest Ouédraogo

This paper provides new empirical evidence on housing bubble timing, volatility spillover, and bubble contagion between Japan and its economic partners, namely, the United States, the Eurozone, and the United Kingdom. First, we apply a generalized su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,175 Views
12 Pages

Cross-Market Correlations and Financial Contagion from Developed to Emerging Economies: A Case of COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Taufeeque Ahmad Siddiqui,
  • Mazia Fatima Khan,
  • Mohammad Naushad and
  • Abdul Malik Syed

In the event that the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across various stock markets, this study may be deemed as one of the primary studies to evaluate cross-market interactions. The study examines the spread of contagious effects originating from developed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,630 Views
24 Pages

Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Led to a Switch in the Volatility of Biopharmaceutical Companies?

  • Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu,
  • Eduard Mihai Manta,
  • Oana Mihaela Vacaru (Boita),
  • Mihaela Gruiescu,
  • Razvan Gabriel Hapau and
  • Paul Laurentiu Baranga

14 July 2023

Biopharmaceutical companies are critical in developing vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics for COVID-19. Thus, understanding the contagion effects of their stock market can have important economic implications, especially in the context of global f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
18,265 Views
19 Pages

Bitcoin is an exciting new financial product that may be useful for inclusion in investment portfolios. This paper investigates the implications of replacing gold in an investment portfolio with bitcoin (“digital gold”). Our approach is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,761 Views
13 Pages

Is Bitcoin a Safe Haven for Indian Investors? A GARCH Volatility Analysis

  • Sarika Murty,
  • Vijay Victor and
  • Maria Fekete-Farkas

This paper attempts to understand the dynamic interrelationships and financial asset capabilities of Bitcoin by analysing several aspects of its volatility vis-a-vis other asset classes. This study aims to analyse the volatility dynamics of the retur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,593 Views
22 Pages

Bitcoin as an Investment and Hedge Alternative. A DCC MGARCH Model Analysis

  • Karl Oton Rudolf,
  • Samer Ajour El Zein and
  • Nicola Jackman Lansdowne

26 August 2021

Volatility and investor sentiment have been factors for the slow adoption rate of Bitcoin (BTC) that was first recognized in 2008 as a potential store of value, investment vehicle and a hedge alternative to gold during a recession. The purpose of thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,973 Views
50 Pages

Exploring the Contagion Effect from Developed to Emerging CEE Financial Markets

  • Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu,
  • Eduard Mihai Manta,
  • Razvan Gabriel Hapau,
  • Mihaela Gruiescu and
  • Oana Mihaela Vacaru (Boita)

29 January 2023

The paper aims to analyze the contagion effect coming from the developed stock markets of the US and Germany to the emerging CEE stock markets of Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland using daily data for the period April 2005–April 2021. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,129 Views
24 Pages

This paper contributes to the literature on safe haven assets, analyzing gold and the Swiss Franc’s defensive properties inside various global stocks portfolios. The analysis relies on monthly data extending over the last two decades. Drawing o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,447 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2018

By introducing net entropy into a stock network, this paper focuses on investigating the impact of network entropy on market returns and trading in the Chinese Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). In this paper, indices of Wu structure entropy (WSE) and S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,439 Views
16 Pages

Fossil Fuel-Based versus Electric Vehicles: A Volatility Spillover Perspective Regarding the Environment

  • Shailesh Rastogi,
  • Jagjeevan Kanoujiya,
  • Satyendra Pratap Singh,
  • Adesh Doifode,
  • Neha Parashar and
  • Pracheta Tejasmayee

Due to environmental concerns, electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining traction over fossil fuel-based vehicles. For electronic devices, including vehicles, copper is the key material used for building. This situation draws attention to the impact of cop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,614 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2022

Infrastructure investment is essential for economic development for both developed and developing economies. We analyze the short-term return behavior and portfolio characteristics of the global, regional, and selected Asian countries’ infrastr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,653 Views
26 Pages

Trade Agreements and Financial Market Integration in Latin America and the US

  • Obed Fernando Izaguirre,
  • Seungho Shin and
  • Duygu Zirek

The primary objective of this study is to examine the extent of financial integration between Latin American and US financial markets, particularly in light of recent efforts to foster integration through trade agreements. Spanning from 1 January 199...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,174 Views
17 Pages

This research examines the correlations between the return volatility of cryptocurrencies, global stock market indices, and the spillover effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, we employed a two-stage multivariate volatility exponential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,069 Views
22 Pages

21 December 2021

This study examined how the relationships among the fossil fuel, clean energy stock, gold, and Bitcoin markets have changed since the COVID-19 pandemic took place for hedging the price change risks in the fossil fuel markets. We applied the Bayesian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,353 Views
26 Pages

This paper evaluates the influence of foreign or domestic stock market return and return of volatility shocks on dynamic conditional correlations (DCCs) between international stock markets and correlation volatility, respectively. The correlations be...