In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the impact of institutional investors on stock market returns dynamics in Poland. The Polish pension system reform in 1999 and the associated increase in institutional ownership due to the investment activities of pension funds are used as an...

The paper presents factor and predictive GARCH(1,1) models of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) main index WIG. An approach where the mean equation of the GARCH model includes a deterministic part is applied. The models incorporate such explanatory variables as volume of trade and major...

The paper presents GARCH models for the Euro-Polish zloty and US dollar-Polish zloty currency rates. It applies the approach within which both the conditional variance function and the mean equation of the ARCH class model are expanded simultaneously. The basic regression equation incorporates...