This paper investigates if changes in network connectedness of European sovereign bond markets from 2005 to 2011 was an indicator of the subsequent financial crisis. The unified methodology proposed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2014) is used to overcome weaknesses in alternative methodologies to...

This paper investigates if benchmark African equity indices exhibit the stylized facts reported for financial time-series returns. The returns distributions of the Africa All-Share, Large, Medium and Small Company Indices were found to be leptokurtotic, had fat-tails, over time experienced...

This paper investigates whether long-term contrarian performance on the UK market is driven by low-priced stocks. We find that contrarian performance at low, middle, low price levels is positive. On the Fama-French risk adjusted basis, we find both low-priced and middle-priced losers have...