In this paper, we examine the comovements between stock market returns and investments that take into account Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors by studying interconnections between the two returns in time and frequency space. We study interdependencies between the conventional...

Volatility in financial markets urges importance of risk management with respect to investors and especially firms. Information and interaction between spot and futures markets plays an important role on formation of market prices. In this study, causality and information flows are examined on...

This study examines long memory in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) by using the structural break test in variance and ARFIMA-FIGARCH model. Our findings indicate that long memory does not exist in the equity return; however, it exits in volatility. Consequently, ISE is found as a weak form...

The aim of this article is to examine the presence of volatility transmission between futures index and underlying stock index by using intraday data in Turkey. We first examined the sudden changes in the variance of futures index return and the underlying spot index return. Then we employed the...

In this study, the relation between the coal firms that are traded in New York Stock Exchange and S&P500 index is analyzed. The return of the coal firms and the market return are analyzed by using traditional CAPM and two-state Markov regime switching CAPM (MS-CAPM). According to the Likelihood...

The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between emerging markets and world index and to evaluate the risk of these countries. For this purpose Markov switching model (MS) is used to test ICAPM. The data range of 23 emerging markets that focused on is between January 1995 and...

High levels of inflation and unemployment have been experienced together in the world after 1970’s. Efforts of decreasing inflation have been achieved in the world after 1990’s. The fact that there has been no evidence the unemployment rate beginning to decrease despite the increasing growth...

In this study, we examine whether the efficient market hypothesis is valid in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) via parametric and semi parametric long memory models. In order to determine the presence of weak form efficient market hypothesis, we consider 10 sector indices. Semi parametric and...

The aim of this paper is to examine validity of the efficient market hypothesis in Borsa İstanbul. Daily returns series are calculated by using daily closing price for BİST100 and BİST30 indices for periods of 1988-2014 and the presence of long memory on the volatility of the returns series...

This paper employs Hong et al.’s (2009) extreme risk spillovers test to investigate the bilateral business confidence spillovers between Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany. After controlling for domestic economic developments in each country and common international factors,...