This article examines institutions’ investment strategies towards environmental and social (E&S) stocks in the first quarter of 2020, coinciding with COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Backed both institutional- firm-level analyses, we find that institutional investors shift higher E&S performance. The high portfolios exhibit lower risk return characteristics, outperforming (underperforming) t...

the risk free rate of return plays a main role in financial economic theory and financial markets. due to prohibition of interest in islamic countries there is no specific financial instrument with risk free rate of return as a criterion for measuring the risk free rate of market. we apply the kalman filter to estimate this variable for financial markets in iran. the technique is based on a sta...

This study examines asymmetric and the lag effects of oil price, gas exchange rate on stock performance Malaysian sub-industries. Using company-level data multi factor asset pricing models, this found that rate, common systematic risk factors such as market, size, book-to-market have significant sub-industries, but these exposures remain heterogeneous. Oil price show strong asymmetrical impacts...

iranian banks can not freely determine their interest rates in the financial market. this characteristic causes banking industry unable to perform their duties of financial intermediaries in the transmission mechanism of monetary. in these circumstances, monetary shocks will have a significant and high effect on the alternative markets (like stocks and housing). in this study, we used dynamic s...

the frequent occurrence of currency crises in recent years brought the early warning literature back in the researchers spotlight. in recent years, concept of an early warning system (ews) developed that should be able to identify various costly events, such as currency crises, early enough for policy makers to reduce the costs. this study attempted by using iran's economy quarterly data d...

In this paper I analyze the impact of increasing government infrastructure investment by using existing large foreign exchange reserves in a fully optimizing model matching the Chinese economy. Even though the private investment falls in the nontradable sector, real expenditure and money balance decrease in the short run, the infrastructure investment greately enhances the efficiency and produc...

The Basel 2 Accord requires regulatory capital to cover stress tests, yet no coherent and objective framework for stress testing portfolios exists. We propose a new methodology for stress testing in the context of market risk models that can incorporate both volatility clustering and heavy tails. Empirical results compare the performance of eight risk models with four possible conditional and u...

  This is undoubtedly recognized that economic performance for each country over time is related to a great extent to its political, institutional and legal environment. In fact, these institutions and policies are that determine the governance quality.   In a panel data study, we applied newly developed indices to examine the effects of good governance on FDI for fifteen middle-income countri...

This paper proposes an improved procedure for stochastic volatility model estimation with an application in risk management. This procedure is composed of the following instrumental components: Fourier transform method for volatility estimation with a price correction scheme, and importance sampling for extremal event probability estimation with applications to estimate Value-at-Risk and condit...