The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of derivatives usage on bank performance. Four derivatives are used: forward, futures, options, and swaps. The bank performance is measured by daily stock returns during the period 2003-2009. The sample is composed of 74 banks from both emerging...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of accounting risk that banks, in both emerging and recently developed countries, face by using derivative instruments. On the whole, results show that forwards negatively affect leverage risk, the use of swap contracts has negative effect on...

This paper propose a new panel stochastic dominance (SD) test-PDD test, the asymptotic properties are derived, which extends Davidson and Duclos (DD) SD test to a panel context. The PDD test also contributes to settle one of the demerits while working with financial derivatives time series: that...

This article deals with the pricing of turbo-warrants and perpetual turbo-warrants. Turbo-warrants have been treated in several articles, whereas perpetual turbo-warrants studies are scarce as they are very recent products. In this work, exotic portfolios are constructed for replicating the...

This paper first examines the efficiency of the UK covered warrants market by adopting a stochastic dominance (SD) approach to examine market efficiency. Our empirical analyses reveal that neither covered warrants nor the underlying shares stochastically dominate each other, which implies that...

This research aims to identify the impact of exchange rate volatility on the fluctuations of stock markets prices, considering two countries from MENA zone. Several gaps in the literature have been identified, indeed, previous works used very short periods of study, many important variables were...

This study investigates the use of derivative instruments by banks in both emerging and recently developed countries in terms of capital market risk. Overall, the results indicate that the use of options increases total return risk and unsystematic risk, while the use of forwards and futures...