In this paper, the effects of oil and gold prices on stock market index are investigated. We use a cointegrated vector autoregressive Markov-switching model to examine the nonlinear properties of these three variables during the period of January 2003 - December 2014. The Markov-switching vector-equilibrium-correction model with three regimes representing "deep recession", "mild recession" and ...

Large stock price movements are modeled as jumps in the stochastic processes of stock prices. In the current literature, the jump intensity is typically specified in models as a function of the current diffusive volatility and past jump intensities, while the jump size is assumed to be independent of the jump intensity. We use a nonparametric jump detection test to identify jumps in several sto...

By means of computer simulation technique, this paper builds an artificial stock market model consisting of decision making agents. Through the fundamental and technical analysis in the aspects of investors, trading cost, transaction volume, risk-free interest, tick size and price-limit system, the model is used to indicate the volatility and liquidity. The results show that the stock index tim...

Stock prices in each industry are one of the major issues in the stock market. Given the increasing number of shareholders in the stock market and their attention to the price of different stocks in transactions, the prediction of the stock price trend has become significant. Many people use the share price movement process when com-paring different stocks while investing, and also want to pred...

this paper studies the effect of considering time varying skewness and kurtosis on the estimation of value at risk (var) for both long and short positions using the hyaparch model and daily data for tehran stock exchange price index (tepix). our results show that applying conditional distributions with time varying or constant skewness and degrees of freedom is able to capture the asymmetry app...

We investigate the pricing of risk-neutral skewness in the stock options market by creating skewness assets comprised of two option positions (one long and one short) and a position in the underlying stock. The assets are created such that exposure to changes in the underlying stock price (delta) and exposure to changes in implied volatility (vega) are removed, isolating the effect of skewness....

The especial importance of capital market in countries is undeniable in economic development via effective capital conduct and optimum resources allocation. Investment in capital market requires decision making in new stock exchanges, and   accessing information in the case of future status of capital market. Undoubtedly, nowadays most part of capital is exchanged via stock exchange all around ...

Instead of modeling asset price and currency risks separately, this paper derives the international hedge portfolio, hedging asset price and currency risk simultaneously for estimating the dynamic international optimal hedge ratio. The model estimation is specified in a multivariate GARCH setting with vector error correction terms and estimated for the commodity and stock markets of the U.S., t...

Using an agent-based model we examine the dynamics of stock price fluctuations and their rates of return in an artificial financial market composed of fundamentalist and chartist agents with and without confidence. We find that chartist agents who are confident generate higher price and rate of return volatilities than those who are not. We also find that kurtosis and skewness are lower in our ...