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Publication date: 22 February 2011

Konstantinos Tolikas

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the asymptotic distribution of the extreme daily stock returns in African stock markets over the period 1996‐2007 and examine the…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the asymptotic distribution of the extreme daily stock returns in African stock markets over the period 1996‐2007 and examine the implications for downside risk measurement.

Design/methodology/approach

Extreme value theory methods are used to model adequately the extreme minimum daily returns in a number of African emerging stock markets.

Findings

The empirical results indicate that the generalised logistic distribution best fitted the empirical data over the period of study.

Practical implications

Using the generalised extreme value and normal distributions for risk assessment could lead to an underestimation of the likelihood of extreme share price declines which could potentially lead to inadequate protection against catastrophic losses.

Originality/value

To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first study to examine the lower tail distribution of daily returns for African emerging stock markets.

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Managerial Finance, vol. 37 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4358

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Publication date: 1 May 2006

Athanasios Koulakiotis, Dimitrios Angelidis, Konstantinos Tolikas and Phil Molyneux

This paper develops the approach suggested by Howe et al. to examine the impact of cross‐listings on stock price volatility in Europe.

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Purpose

This paper develops the approach suggested by Howe et al. to examine the impact of cross‐listings on stock price volatility in Europe.

Design/methodology/approach

A modified generalized autoregressive conditional hetero‐skedasticity (GARCH) modeling approach as suggested by Li and Engle is used taking into account different regulatory structures across the range of markets using LaPorta et al.'s stock market regulatory classification.

Findings

It is found that information spillover effects are important for the Dutch market for cross‐listed equities and that a different regulatory environment may have a noteworthy impact on symmetric information spillovers.

Research limitations/implications

The focus is 11 cross‐listing equities and on an event window of 12 years. This implies that the results may be biased on the data sample and the length of the period that used.

Practical implications

The findings are important for the shareholders of cross‐listed companies as the various impacts of regulatory differences between markets (as a result of low and high shareholder protection rules) from foreign markets to the Dutch home market are identified.

Originality/value

A primary focus of this paper is to provide a different methodology than the one adopted by Howe et al. using a modified GARCH modeling approach as suggested by Li and Engle, to examine the impact of the cross‐listings of Dutch firms on symmetric volatility spillovers. The analysis also takes into account the influence of different regulatory structures across the range of markets where Dutch firms are cross‐listed. In particular, we use LaPorta et al.'s stock market regulatory classification is used to analyze the magnitude and persistence of symmetric volatility spillovers from the foreign listing to the home equity of cross‐listed companies in the Dutch stock exchange.

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Managerial Finance, vol. 32 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4358

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