Studies in Economics and Finance: Volume 23 Issue 2

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Idiosyncratic volatility and security returns: evidence from Germany and United Kingdom

Michael E. Drew, Mirela Malin, Tony Naughton, Madhu Veeraraghavan

Malkiel and Xu state that idiosyncratic volatility is highly correlated with size and that it plays a powerful role in explaining expected returns. The purpose of this paper is to…

Do what insiders do: Abnormal performances after the release of insiders' relevant transactions

Emanuele Bajo, Barbara Petracci

This paper aims to investigate the main motivations for Italian insiders to trade relevant stakes of their companies, specifically assuming that most transactions are driven by…

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Technical analysis and the stochastic properties of the Jordanian stock market index return

Muhannad A. Atmeh, Ian M. Dobbs

To investigate the performance of moving average trading rules in an emerging market context, namely that of the Jordanian stock market.

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Bayesian Markov mixture of normals approach to modeling financial returns

George Chang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether Markov mixture of normals (MMN) model is a viable approach to modeling financial returns.

Cover of Studies in Economics and Finance

ISSN:

1086-7376

Online date, start – end:

1977

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Niklas Wagner