This paper reproduces the performance of two international shipping stock indexes and two physical shipping indexes by investing only in stock portfolios that our algorithms determine. In our analysis, we use daily stock data and address the index-tracking problem with the differential evolution...

We examine whether investors herd in their decision to order new or scrap old vessels in the drybulk market. Our paper is seminal as herd behavior in the shipping markets has not been previously investigated. We decompose herding into unintentional and intentional, and test for herd behavior...

This paper studies the impact of modelling time-varying variances of stock returns in terms of risk measurement and extreme risk spillover. Using a general class of regime-dependent models, we find that volatility can be disaggregated into distinct components: a persistent stable process with...

This paper examines the role of commodities in asset allocation from the perspective of dynamic portfolio management. To this end, we model conditional variances and correlations of stock, bond and commodity futures to study how conditional second moments affect the optimal portfolio choice of a...

In this paper, we analyze whether regulation reduced risk during the credit crisis and the sovereign debt crisis for a cross section of global banks. In this regard, we examine distance to default (Laeven and Levine, 2008), systemic risk (Acharya et al., 2010), idiosyncratic risk, and systematic...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the behaviour of the spot prices of eight of the most important energy markets that trade futures contracts on NYMEX. We model the energy spot prices with a Mean Reversion (MR) and a Mean Reversion Jump Diffusion (MRJD) specification for the returns'...

The aim of this paper is to use an alternative measure of the efficiency of the different shipping industries, i.e. VLCC/ULCC (250 000 dwt), Suezmax (140 000 dwt), Aframax (80 000 dwt), which are the main carriers of crude oil, and Handymax (40 000 dwt), which carries the vast majority of clean...