Employing both the mean-variance framework and the common portfolio risk-optimization, this study adds to the investment research by examining how ideal holdings for emerging and frontier markets (EFM) of the four global regions (Asian, Europe, and Commonwealth of Independent States (Eastern +...

This paper examines and confirms the varying volatility of the relationship between cryptocurrency and currency markets at different time periods, such as when the market encountered multiple risk events including the US-China trade war, COVID-19, and the Russian-Ukraine war. We employ the...

Like no other calamitous event in recent memory, the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world’s financial system into disarray, triggering systemic risk spillovers across markets. In this study, we use 5-minute index futures price data to examine the multiscale interdependence structure of...

China is considered the largest emerging economy and thus investors perceived as an attractive investment. We examine the spillover effect from Chinese stock exchange to stock exchanges of Asia and Latin America, namely, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. For empirical purpose, the study...

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...

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...