This paper investigates the impact of earnings news on the trading behaviour of different types of traders in Finland. The results indicate that small and large traders behave differently around the earnings announcements, small traders increasing their sell orders after negative earnings surprises.

The results of this note indicate that the return-leverage relation turned from negative to positive in Finland in the late 1980s. This finding is explained by the liberalization of Finnish financial markets and the decrease in the degree of financial leverage of Finnish listed firms. The...

This note investigates the behaviour of small and large traders on different days of the week in the Finnish stock market. The results suggest that small traders increase their sell orders after the weekend. This suggests that the selling pressure of small individual investors in the beginning...

The paper investigates the predictability of Finnish stock and stock index futures returns by the volume of index options. Absolute stock market returns are predictable by options volume while returns per se are not. However, call and put volume offer useful information on the future behaviour...

The predictability of Finnish stock index futures and cash returns by the volume of stock index options and futures is investigated. Relying on Granger causality tests and vector autoregression, the results support the hypothesis that derivatives trading volume cannot be used to predict returns.

This study re-examines the German dominance hypothesis in the EMS. A VAR in levels approach is adopted and modified Wald tests, which are robust to cointegration properties of the variables, are used. The findings indicate that, although Germany played a measurable role, the extent of monetary...

This paper investigates alternative explanations of long-term comovements among the prices of agricultural commodity futures contracts. A long-term interdependency of these prices can exist because of common economic fundamentals or herd behaviour by market participants. An analysis of Tokyo...

In this paper we model six major foreign stock index returns as conditionally heteroscedastic processes with time dependent autocorrelation. The findings point to a significant inverse relationship between volatility and autocorrelation. This is in agreement with previous findings for the US...

Using data from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, this paper investigates the impact of an increase in trading hours (from two to three on 15 January 1990) on the variance of stock returns. The results confirm those of most earlier studies that report that trading time volatility is significantly...