Purpose: This study explores the price and trading volume effects around the quarterly Dow Jones Islamic Market-GCC index (DJIM-GCC) revisions and investigates whether these reactions are driven by firms' fundamentals or by investors' perception of ethical screening....

This article explores the dynamics of the dependence between 'A' and 'B' share indices on the Shanghai and Shenzhen securities exchanges. While the marginal behaviour of each stock index is modelled by an asymmetric Student-t distribution, the nature of the dependence is captured through a...

Assuming that the variance of daily price changes and trading volume are both driven by the same latent variable measuring the number of price-relevant information arriving on the market, the mixture of distribution hypothesis represents an intuitive and appealing explanation for the empirically...

Outliers can lead to model misspecifications, poor forecasts and invalid inferences. Their identification and correction is therefore an important objective of financial modeling. This paper introduces a simple method to detect outliers in a financial series. It uses an AR(1)-GARCH(1,1) model to...