This research article explores the mediating role of stock market indexes on the link between exchange rate variations and oil prices by utilizing unrestricted VAR. Previously mainstream research only explained the direct dynamism between the two variables. However, any transmission mechanism...

This study investigated the impact of investor sentiment impact on sectoral returns and their volatility on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange using a proxy-based composite investor sentiment index and generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models. Overall, findings showed a...

The study examines returns spillover, shock, and volatility transmission between Nigeria and selected global stock markets over the period January 2000 to August 2021 using a diagonal BEKK-AMGARCH model. Results show that the Nigerian stock market exhibits characteristics of inefficiency, as...

This research aims to investigate the asset allocation performance of three different optimization methods commonly applied in the literature for a portfolio composed of univariate returns generated from Mixed and Elliptic copulas instead of historical data. As a result, returns of five equities...

It has been almost a decade since the introduction of derivatives instruments in Indian bourses like Options and Futures trading replacing thereby age old Badla transactions and almost two decades since the introduction and implementation of liberalization, privatization and globalization...

We propose a semiparametric multivariate estimator and a multivariate score-type testing procedure under a perturbed multivariate fractional process. The estimator is based on the periodogram and uses a local Whittle criterion function which is generalised by an additional constant to capture...

The purpose of this study is to compare the trend and volatility behaviour in Sukuk and conventional bonds of the Pakistan market. This study takes data from Wapda Sukuk and Pakistan 5 Investment Bonds (PIB) both of ten (10) years of maturity were incorporated as a sample. Daily price data were...