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International Journal of Financial Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2

2021 June - 16 articles

Cover Story: Amidst increased uncertainty, fear, and disruption, people are seeking community. Social media platforms, such as Twitter, provide this community virtually. Increased reliance and use of social media for information have led to an increase in the predictability of Bitcoin returns and conditional volatility linked to the information provided by this virtual society. Furthermore, the unique COVID-19-induced lockdowns have led to a greater number of people following and tweeting about Bitcoin. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,494 Views
24 Pages

Relativistic Option Pricing

  • Vitor H. Carvalho and
  • Raquel M. Gaspar

The change of information near light speed, advances in high-speed trading, spatial arbitrage strategies and foreseen space exploration, suggest the need to consider the effects of the theory of relativity in finance models. Time and space, under cer...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
11,202 Views
18 Pages

The business environment of today is complex and dynamic due to increasing global competition. The businessman needs to master and know all the information that has strategic value, and Competitive Intelligence is positioned as the most appropriate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,816 Views
17 Pages

Modeling System Risk in the South African Insurance Sector: A Dynamic Mixture Copula Approach

  • John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba and
  • Ehounou Serge Eloge Florentin Angaman

In this paper, a dynamic mixture copula model is used to estimate the marginal expected shortfall in the South African insurance sector. We also employ the generalized autoregressive score model (GAS) to capture the dynamic asymmetric dependence betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,761 Views
22 Pages

This paper investigates the dynamic tail dependence risk between BRICS economies and the world energy market, in the context of the COVID-19 financial crisis of 2020, in order to determine optimal investment decisions based on risk metrics. For this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,731 Views
7 Pages

We investigated the differential impacts of a new Twitter-based Market Uncertainty index (TMU) and variables for Bitcoin before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results showed that TMU is a leading indicator of Bitcoin returns only during the pandem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,980 Views
14 Pages

Accounting Comparability and Cash Holdings in Vietnam

  • Liem Thanh Nguyen and
  • Khuong Vinh Nguyen

The management of cash requires careful considerations to allow firms to benefit from proper resource allocations while mitigating agency issues. Accounting comparability can play an important role in tackling information asymmetry and agency cost, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,986 Views
19 Pages

The Interactions between COVID-19 Cases in the USA, the VIX Index and Major Stock Markets

  • Simon Grima,
  • Letife Özdemir,
  • Ercan Özen and
  • Inna Romānova

With this study, we aimed to determine (1) the effect of the daily new cases and deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States on the CBOE volatility index (VIX index) and (2) the effect of the VIX index on the major stock markets during t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,143 Views
25 Pages

Improving Audit Reports: A Consensus between Auditors and Users

  • Estibaliz Goicoechea,
  • Fernando Gómez-Bezares and
  • José Vicente Ugarte

Audit reports represent the only information stakeholders have about conducted audits and they are a key instrument used in economic and financial decisions. Improving audit reports should be a priority of regulators and auditors. The authors solicit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,775 Views
13 Pages

Does Trading Volume Drive Systemic Banks’ Stock Return Volatility? Lessons from the Greek Banking System

  • Athanasios Tsagkanos,
  • Konstantinos Gkillas,
  • Christoforos Konstantatos and
  • Christos Floros

The present research investigates the impact of trading volume on stock return volatility using data from the Greek banking system. For our analysis, the empirical study uses daily measures of volatility constructed from intraday data for the period...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,642 Views
12 Pages

This study extracts the common factors from firm-based credit spreads of major Japanese corporate bonds and examines the predictive content of the credit spread on the real economy. Instead of employing single-maturity corporate bond spreads, we focu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,913 Views
16 Pages

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of short-selling deregulation on the financial performance of SMEs in China. The external governance role of short-selling is also tested by adopting corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,589 Views
8 Pages

Revisiting Banking Stability Using a New Panel Cointegration Test

  • Hassan B. Ghassan,
  • Zakaria Boulanouar and
  • Kabir M. Hassan

Using a new panel cointegration test that considers serial correlation and cross-section dependence on a mixed and heterogenous sample of Saudi banks, we revisit the cointegrating equation of the z-score index of banking stability. Our results show t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,251 Views
15 Pages

Exploring Investment Behavior of Women Entrepreneur: Some Future Directions

  • Umair Baig,
  • Batool Muhammad Hussain,
  • Vida Davidaviciene and
  • Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene

This study aims to explore the investment behavior of female entrepreneurs as the new competitor in the investment field and to determine the underlying factors that influence their investment attitudes. A qualitative investigation approach was emplo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,084 Views
24 Pages

Studies on the characteristics of insolvent firms’ earnings management are critical, as the ripple effects of a firm’s opportunistic accounting and insolvency on society can be widespread and significant. This study divides a dataset of unlisted firm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11,782 Views
13 Pages

Tick Size and Price Reversal after Order Imbalance

  • Espen Sirnes and
  • Minh Thi Hong Dinh

It is well known that intraday returns tend to reverse the following intraday period, conditional on excess buying pressure on the bid or ask side. This suggests that liquidity providers “overreact” to order imbalance (OIB) by initially altering quot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,718 Views
18 Pages

During the past decades, seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) had become one of a prevalent linear models in time series and forecasting. Empirical research advocated that forecasting with non-linear models can be an encouraging...

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