Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the international diversification benefits of Islamic bonds (Sukuk) for equity investors in conventional stock markets. The authors compare the diversification benefits of these securities with their conventional alternatives from advanced and...

This paper explores international diversification benefits of Islamic bonds (sukuk) by examining dynamic spillovers and correlations between sukuk and conventional bond and stock markets. Asymmetric volatility spillover effects are observed from global debt and equity markets to Islamic bonds,...

This paper contributes to the literature on the financial integration in international stock markets by examining the dynamic relationship between global factors and herd behavior in an emerging market. Utilizing a time-varying transition probability Markov Switching model (TVTP-MS), we examine...

This paper proposes a Markov-Switching (MS) test of herding behavior in China's segmented stock markets under a regime-changing environment. Using firm-level data on the A-shares (denominated in Chinese Renminbi) and B-shares (denominated in U.S. and Hong Kong dollars), we estimate an MS model...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between global factors and herding behavior in the oil-rich frontier stock markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), using a time-varying transition probability Markov Switching model (TVTP-MS). Our results suggest that the GCC frontier stock...

This paper examines the international diversification benefits of nine bloc-wide equity sectors/subsectors in the oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries by comparing alternative spillover models that encompass local, regional and global factors. Both the return and volatility...

This paper introduces a new methodology to estimate time‐varying alphas and betas in conditional factor models, which allows substantial flexibility in a time‐varying framework. To circumvent problems associated with the previous approaches, we introduce a Bayesian time‐varying parameter...