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...

the option-pricing problem is always an important part in modern finance. assuming that the stock diffusion is a constant, some literature has introduced many stock models and given corresponding option pricing formulas within the framework of the uncertainty theory. in this paper, we propose a new stock model with uncertain stock diffusion for uncertain markets. some option pricing formulas on...

In this paper we study the nature of regional inter-dependence among selected Asian stock markets and contrast it with that among selected European markets before and during the Asian crisis. We ask if the Asian crisis marked any fundamental change in the basic nature of these relationships. Using daily dollar-denominated returns data from eight East Asian and eight European stock markets, we s...

This paper examines the integration of stock markets in Germany, France, Netherlands, Ireland and UK over January 1973-August 2008 at the aggregate market and industry level considering the following industries: basic materials, consumer goods, industrials, consumer services, health care and financials. The analysis is carried out by using correlation analysis, β-convergence and σ-convergence m...

Contagion is usually defined as correlation between markets in excess of what would be implied by economic fundamentals; however, there is considerable disagreement regarding the definitions of the fundamentals, how the fundamentals might differ across countries, and the mechanisms that link the fundamentals to asset returns. Our research takes, as a starting point, a two-factor model with time...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C22 F31 F37 G12 G15 Keywords: Stock return Chinese stock market Conditional heteroskedasticity Leverage effect Regime persistence In recent years the Chinese stock market has experienced an astonishing growth and unprecedented development , but is also viewed as one of the most volatile markets, which has been called by many observers a " casino ". This...

In a global economy, shocks occurring in one market can spill over to other markets. This paper investigates the impact of oil shocks and stock markets crashes on correlations between stock and oil markets. We test changes in correlations at different scales with non-overlapping confidence intervals based on estimated wavelet correlations. Contrary to other approaches, this method does not need...

stock selection method in stock exchange is an important issue for investors in such markets. investors will gain benefits more than market average provided that they make logical decisions while selecting stocks. the issue of stock selection in markets like tehran stock exchange (that are not so efficient) is requires more attention of the investors as there is not a suitable equilibrium betwe...