A Market-Building Approach to Financial Inclusion

A Financial Engineering Approach to Identify Stock Market Bubble

In this paper we adopt an engineering method based on Al-Anaswah and Wilfling, state space model with Markov-switching, to capture the speculative bubbles of stock markets in China and US. We present the VAR log linear asset pricing model in state space model with Markov-switching, so that we can capture the unobservable speculative bubbles. Based on the dataset from Stock markets in China and ...

A Digital Pathway to Financial Inclusion

Payments are the connective tissue of an economic system. They enable people to buy goods, purchase water and electricity, and send money to friends, family, and business partners. They enable governments to collect taxes and disburse social payments. And they enable suppliers to collect payments from buyers. When these transactions are costly and inconvenient, economic activity is impeded. Wea...

Financial portfolio approach to optimal tourist market mixes

This study applied a financial portfolio theory to estimate optimal market mixes to minimize the instability of inbound tourist market demand. An empirical analysis was applied to inbound tourists to Taiwan. The results shed light on diversification in tourism market and offer tourism authorities and policy-makers explicit guidelines for risk management in the destination planning process. Spec...

Financial market crisis and financial market channel

Financial Integration for India Stock Market, a Fractional Cointegration Approach

The Indian stock market is one of the earliest in Asia being in operation since 1875, but remained largely outside the global integration process until the late 1980s. A number of developing countries in concert with the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank took steps in the 1980s to establish and revitalize their stock markets as an effective way of mobilizing and allocation of...