capital assets pricing model is used as a tool for the estimation of investments in capital markets with the relation of expected return and risk on securities. this study examines the applicability of capm on pakistan stock markets and karachi stock exchange being the main capital market of pakistan is taken for the study. the analysis is done by taking a sample of 10 performing companies of 1...

This study examines intraday relationships among the spot index, index futures, and the implied volatility index based on the VAR(1)-asymmetric BEKK-MGARCH model. Analysis of a high-frequency dataset from theKorean financialmarket confirms that there is a strong intraday market linkage between the spot index, KOSPI200 futures, and VKOSPI and that asymmetric volatility behaviour is clearly prese...

The emergence of IT-based trading activities like algorithmic trading or high-frequency trading alters the traditional trading environment within financial markets. Thus, the question arises whether this technological arms race positively affects market quality or represents a risk related to market integrity. Within this study, we evaluate the order-to-trade-ratio for measuring overall ITbased...

Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

In this paper, we study short term return reversals in the stock market. In our model, each period new investors arrive to the stock market with stochastic endowments, trade and then exit the market. The market makers retain a continuous presence in the stock market and carry over in time investors’ order imbalances. The price impact from investors’ order imbalances makes prices deviate from fu...

In this paper it has been attempted to investigate the capability of the consumption-based capital asset pricing model (CCAPM), using the general method of moment (GMM), with regard to the Epstien-zin recursive preferences model for Iran's capital market. Generally speaking, recursive utility permits disentangling of the two psychologically separate concepts of risk aversion and elasticity of i...

Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? Evidence from Spain We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance with previous evidence for the US we show the existence of a riskreturn trade-off across occupations in the Spanish labour marke...