We examine the effect of bilateral political and military news on the returns and volatility of the stock markets of India and Pakistan. Our results show that the volatility of both stock markets shows a significant reaction on the arrival of news related to military aggression in a reciprocal...

We investigate the intraday dynamics and inter market dependencies in international equity markets utilizing concurrent high frequency 5-minute returns. We observe a strong intraday cyclical autocorrelation structure in absolute returns caused by the diurnal pattern. Moreover, a major rise in...

This paper investigates the return and volatility response of major European and US equity indices to monetary policy surprises by utilizing extensive intraday data on 5-min price quotes along with a comprehensive dataset on monetary policy decisions and macroeconomic news announcements. The...

The objective of this paper is to explore whether lagged trading activity in one market contributes to the return and volatility process in other markets, using 5-min concurrent data from German and British equity market. Our results lend support to our initial premise that if international...

This paper undertakes a fresh empirical investigation of key financial market variables and the theories that link them. We employ high frequency 5-minute data that include transaction price, trading volume, and the close bid and ask quote for the period May 5, 2004 through September 29, 2005....

Did the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 change the volatility dynamics of stock markets? Using daily returns data from Pakistan, a front line state in the war against terror, we investigate whether important time series characteristics, for example first-order time dependence in the mean...

This study demonstrates how hedging methodologies can be evaluated in a modern risk management context and provides a hedging effectiveness of dynamic hedge ratios. The results provide an indication of the superior performance of the time varying hedge ratio as compared with traditional constant...