Portfolio diversification and hedging have become more complicated in large part due to adverse developments in the time-varying behavior of correlations, and consequently there is renewed appreciation for understanding how correlation dynamics affect the diversification and hedging properties...

This study examines the link between stocks and decentralized finance (DeFi) in terms of returns and volatility. Major G7 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and various highly traded DeFi assets are considered to ensure the robustness of the empirical experiment. Specifically, this study applies the...

China is considered the largest emerging economy and thus investors perceived as an attractive investment. We examine the spillover effect from Chinese stock exchange to stock exchanges of Asia and Latin America, namely, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. For empirical purpose, the study...

We analyse whether family firms differ from non-family firms in terms of business segment and geographical diversification or the application of currency hedging instruments. This analysis is based on a unique dataset of 339 publicly listed companies (1,561 firm years) in the German Prime...

In this paper studies the impact of diversification on naively constructed (randomly chosen and equally weighted) hedge fund portfolios.

"Asymmetric Dependence (hereafter, AD) is usually thought of as a cross-sectional phenomenon. Andrew Patton describes AD as "stock returns appear to be more highly correlated during market downturns than during market upturns." (Patton, 2004) Thus at a point in time when the market return is...