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bond market from the same bond market's weight in global bond market, we investigate the determinants of foreign and … domestic investment biases in 41 global bond markets. We find that foreign investors significantly overweigh markets that offer …. Such return driven behavior of foreign investors is especially pronounced in emerging bond markets. Meanwhile, home bias is …
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This paper studies the volatility spillover between oil price and conventional and Islamic stock markets. We use a sample of five standard MSCI indexes and their Islamic counterparts from five countries from the Gulf region (Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE) and Brent crude oil price index,...
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Japanese yen bond markets. The reference returns result from a regime-switching Nelson-Siegel yield curve model following …
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characterization of flight-to-safety (FTS) episodes. Using only data on bond and stock returns, we identify and characterize flight to … safety episodes for 23 countries. On average, FTS episodes comprise less than 5% of the sample, and bond returns exceed …
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Shari'a governance is considered a crucial element of the Islamic banking industry. As recent as 2017, Islamic banks in the Kingdom of Bahrain were required by the regulator to have only a Shari'a Supervisory Board and an internal Shari'a function. In 2017, the Central Bank of Bahrain issued a...
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We study the economic sources of stock-bond return comovement and its time variation using a dynamic factor model. We … dynamics of stock-bond return correlations poorly. Alternative factors, such as liquidity proxies, help explain the residual …
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This study aims to investigate the effect of bond issuance announcements and to determine the company characteristics … that could influence this effect. The findings reveal positive cumulative average abnormal returns following bond issuances …, indicating that the market considers bond offers to be favorable news. Nevertheless, cross-sectional regression analysis shows an …
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This paper tests the performance of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Fama-French three-factor and Carhart four-factor models on the Polish market. We use stock level data from April 2001 to January 2014 and find strong evidence for value and momentum effects, but only weak evidence...
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We study the period of the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the impact of foreign institutional investor (FII) flows on asset prices in an emerging market. Using a dataset of stock-level foreign fund flows of Indian equities, we show that stocks experiencing abnormally high innovations in foreign...
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The efficient market hypothesis describes an efficient market as one in which investors cannot consistently predict stock returns because prices instantly reflect all the information flowing into the market. However, return predictability has been documented in many markets. This study tests the...
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