Purpose This study investigates the influence of trading mechanisms on cross-market integration between stocks and corporate bonds on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) during the COVID-19 crisis. Unlike the worldwide practice of trading corporate bonds on an over-the-counter (OTC) market, TASE...

This study explores long-term investment strategies for individuals in European countries who have limited initial capital and may have no expertise in financial economics. We compare three strategies-Cost Average Plan (CAP), Bank Deposits Plan (BDP), and Buy and Hold (BnH)-by analyzing their...

This study presents an easy-to-handle approach to measuring the severity of reinsurance that faces a system of dependent claims, where the reinsurance contracts are of excess loss or proportional loss. The proposed approach is a natural generalization of common reinsurance methodologies...

This study proposes a structured product (SP) for hedging defined contribution pension fund members against capital market risk. Using Monte Carlo simulations on three different guaranteed returns to test the investment strategy of the SP against a balanced investment portfolio, we measure their...

Purpose The objective of this paper is to examine the determinants of the Greek house market during the period 2006-2022 using not only economic variables but also behavioral variables, taking advantage of available information on the volume of Google searches. In order to quantify the...

This paper examines the quantile connectedness between Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), housing market sentiment, and stock market sentiment in the U.S. over the period between January 2014 and June 2022 using the quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) model. We find modest spillover...