The present study contributes to the ongoing debate on possible costs and benefits of insider trading. We present a novel call auction model with insider information. Our model predicts that more insider information improves informational efficiency of prices, but this comes at the expense of...

This paper documents that ECB announcements increase the stock market volatility in the euro area (EA) on the same day. I consider two volatility measures from January 1998 to May 2019. First, a realized volatility measure uses intraday data for 8 different stock market indices. Second, a range...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) for Visegrad Group. The stock prices have been analyzed for the period between 1995 and 2014 with panel multiple structural breaks unit root test which is developed by Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005). According to...

The research investigates the long-run overreaction phenomenon in EURONEXT stock exchange. Data of EURONEXT stock exchange for the period of 2000-2017 were employed for the winner and the loser portfolio formation and systemic risk adjustment with the CAPM. Robustness was checked with t-test...

Evidence on the effectiveness of FX interventions in the prevailing higher frequency approaches leaves a gap at horizons going beyond a few days. This is addressed by identifying a structural vector autoregressive model for the daily frequency with an external instrument. Using Japanese data, we...