The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of long memory stock returns of emerging markets. The study carries out a biased reduced semi parametric test to detect long memory in mean process. The results suggest no strong evidence of long memory in mean process of stock returns both in...

This paper compares various machine learning models to predict the cross-section of emerging market stock returns. We document that allowing for non-linearities and interactions leads to economically and statistically superior out-of-sample returns compared to traditional linear models. Although...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the causalresponse of the stock market returns to COVID-19 related economicsupport in 19 emerging countries by using the Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform (MODWT) and Fourier Toda-Yamamoto Causality Test (FTYCT). With the help of MODWT,...

Using a panel ARDL model, this study examines the relationship between stock prices and prices in other marketplaces. Examining data for 19 emerging market nations from January 2004 to December 2022, the study investigates how gold prices, interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation affect...

In this paper, we examine whether jumps matter in both equity market returns and integrated volatility. For this purpose, we use the swap variance (SwV) approach to identify monthly jumps and estimated realized volatility in prices for both developed and emerging markets from February 2001 to...

The main aim of this paper is to investigate volatility spillover effects, the impact of past volatility on present market movements, the reaction to positive and negative news, among selected financial markets. The sample stock markets are geographically dispersed on different continents,...

The debate on the UK leaving the European Union is still hot and ongoing today due to many economic, political, social, and other consequences on many different countries over the world. This paper focuses on the reactions of selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) and South and Eastern...

The paper uses a panel VAR framework to estimate the impact of a series of reforms aimed at reducing transactions cost and information cost in India’s secondary market for equity, on trading cost and trading volume. In particular, we focus on the reforms that were introduced after the creation...

The goal ofthis comparative research isto investigate intra-market commonality inliquid-ity onsix small emerging Central and Eastern European (CEE) stock exchanges - inthe Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. The CEE post-commu-nist countries can beanalyzed together...

This study examined the determinants of stock returns for the emerging market of Kenya: The Nairobi Securities Exchange. The specific objectives were to establish if certain selected macroeconomic variables affect stock prices in Kenya, to examine the validity of the Capital Asset Pricing Model...