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Evidence of economic policy uncertainty and COVID-19 pandemic on global stock returns

Chiang, Thomas C. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24

This paper examines the impact of changes in economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and COVID-19 shock on stock returns. Tests of 16 global stock market indices, using monthly data from January 1990 to August 2021, suggest a negative relation between the stock return and a country’s EPU. Evidence...

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A non-parametric and entropy based analysis of the relationship between the VIX and S&P 500

Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Powell, Robert; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 6 (2013) 1, pp. 6-30

This paper features an analysis of the relationship between the S&P 500 Index and the VIX using daily data obtained from the CBOE website and SIRCA (The Securities Industry Research Centre of the Asia Pacific). We explore the relationship between the S&P 500 daily return series and a similar...

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Connecting VIX and stock index ETF with VAR and diagonal BEKK

Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsieh, Tai-Lin; McAleer, Michael - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 11 (2018) 4, pp. 1-25

As stock market indexes are not tradeable, the importance and trading volume of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) cannot be understated. ETFs track and attempt to replicate the performance of a specific index. Numerous studies have demonstrated a strong relationship between the S&P500 Composite Index...

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Do REITs outperform stocks and fixed-income assets? : new evidence from mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches

Chiang, Thomas C.; Hooi Hooi Lean; Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 1 (2008) 1, pp. 1-40

This paper re-examines the performance of REITs, stocks, and fixed-income assets based on the preferences of risk …-averse and risk-seeking investors using mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches. Our findings indicate no first … order to maximize their expected utility, the risk-averse prefer fixed-income assets over real estate, which, in turn, is …

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Stock returns and risk : evidence from quantile

Chiang, Thomas C.; Li, Jiandong - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 5 (2012) 1, pp. 20-58

This paper employs weighted least squares to examine the risk-return relation by applying high-frequency data from four … returns and expected risk. However, by using quantile regressions, we find that the risk-return relation moves from negative … to positive as the returns’ quantile increases. A positive risk-return relation is valid only in the upper quantiles. The …

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Editorial note : review papers for Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM)

McAleer, Michael - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 11 (2018) 2, pp. 1-2

The Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) was inaugurated in 2008 and has continued publishing successfully …

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