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American J. of Finance and Accounting  (AJFA)

Year: 2008  Volume: 1 - Issue: 1

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Do retail options traders know better about market volatility?
DOI: 10.1504/AJFA.2008.019876
Cheny Chen, Ming-Hua Liu, Hoa NguyenThis paper examines the informational content and predictive power of implied volatility over different forecasting horizons in a sample of European covered warrants traded in the Hong Kong and Singapore markets. The empirical results show ...1 - 19
A new online method for event detection and tracking: empirical evidence from the French stock market
DOI: 10.1504/AJFA.2008.019876
Mohamed Saidane, Christian LavergneIn this article we propose a new approach in event studies based on a hidden Markov chain combined with a classical event study model. The number of states informs us about the number of significant events affecting the related market, and ...20 - 51
The global and regional factors in the volatility of emerging sovereign bond markets
DOI: 10.1504/AJFA.2008.019876
Thanh Huong Dinh, Duc Khuong NguyenThis paper examines how much the volatility of sovereign bond markets in emerging Latin American countries is influenced by the volatility shocks to global and regional markets. After estimating the Generalised AutoRegressive Conditional He...52 - 68
The effect of taxes on small banks| loan loss provisions
DOI: 10.1504/AJFA.2008.019876
B. Anthony Billings, Buagu MusaziSo far the earnings management literature has failed to establish the impact of taxes on the Loan Loss Provisions (LLPs) of financial institutions. We extend the discretionary LLP literature to a less studied area regarding the role of taxe...69 - 86
The effects of local and global risk factors on the S&P 500 stock returns: an empirical investigation
DOI: 10.1504/AJFA.2008.019876
Mahdy F. Elhusseiny, Mazhar M. IslamIn this paper we examine the impact of several local and global risk factors on the stock returns of S&P 500 industries| indices by applying a multifactor arbitrage pricing model. The local macroeconomic factors are industrial productio...87 - 101