Stock Returns after Major Price Shocks: The Impact of Information

Impact of the Selected Domestic and Foreign Markets Returns on Stock Price in Iran

One of the features of a financial market, the stock market, in particular, is the market sentiment which is the overall attitude of investors toward a particular security or financial market. Investors always seek to create a portfolio with minimum risk while maintaining the expected return level. Therefore, perceiving the relationship between the stock returns and markets returns can be helpf...

Price Inflation and Stock Returns

This letter is intended to demonstrate that price inflation and stock returns display differing relationships depending on the measure of inflation used. Using data from 1966 – 2009, it appears that no correlation exists between any measure of price inflation and stock returns or dividend yield in the period 1983 – 2009. We do find a negative correlation between monetary inflation and dividend ...

Can Investment Shocks Explain the Cross-section of Stock Returns?∗

In this paper we assess the role of capital-embodied technology shocks in explaining properties of the cross section of stock returns. Existing theories seem to disagree on the sign and magnitude of the price the market demands for bearing the risk of such shocks: while a negative price is necessary to justify the value premium or the cross-sectional predictability of returns by firm characteri...

Reaction of Stock Market Index to Oil Price Shocks

T his study examines how oil price shocks interact with the stock market index within a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model in Iran. Based on quarterly data for the period from 1991 to 2017, the findings revealed statistically significant evidence of short-run and long-run asymmetric behavior of stock market index in response to the positive a...

The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns