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A popular view is that the surge in the price of oil during 2003-08 cannot be explained by economic fundamentals, but was caused by the increased financialization of oil futures markets, which in turn allowed speculation to become a major determinant of the spot price of oil. This interpretation...
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, switching and herding all contribute to market volatility in price and return and to volatility clustering, their impacts are … increase in switching intensity reduces the return volatility and in particular a low switching intensity reduces the price … volatility and increases the level of the significant ACs, but the effect becomes opposite when the switching intensity is high …
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price volatility on commodity markets through improved control of speculation on futures and OTC markets. The article is … analysing the hypothesis that commodity funds are causing price volatility using first a direct relationship between the “Assets …
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that kurtosis and volatility are lowest within the small world region of the network. This effect is negated as the number … world network and have limited liquidity. They trade based on their assessment of the future direction of the market … interaction between the agents generate kurtosis and persistence characteristics of volatility in returns. In addition, the level …
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persistent volatility characterized by significantly decaying autocorrelations of, and positive correlation between, price … volatility and trading volume. …
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herding all contribute to market volatility in price and return and volatility clustering, but their impact are different. On … switching reduces the return volatility and an initial increase in switching reduces the price volatility and increases the …
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volatility and volatility transmission between oil and Ghanaian stock market returns in a multivariate setting using the recently … significant volatility spillover and interdependence between oil and the two stock market returns. While spillover effects are … stronger for Nigeria, the transmission of volatility is much more apparent from oil to stock than from stock to oil in the case …
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the dynamic spillover of return and volatility between oil and equities in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries during … the period 2004 to 2012. Our results indicate that return and volatility transmissions are bi-directional, albeit …
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This paper documents that at the individual stock level insiders sales peak many months before a large drop in the stock price, while insiders purchases peak only the month before a large jump. We provide a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon based on trading constraints and asymmetric...
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