Does commercial microfinance belong to the financial sector? Lessons from the stock market

M Brière, A Szafarz - World Development, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full
advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should …

Investigating efficiency of frontier stock markets using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis

F Aslam, P Ferreira, W Mohti - International Journal of Emerging …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The investigation of the fractal nature of financial data has been growing in the
literature. The purpose is to investigate the multifractal behavior of frontier markets using …

Role of emerging markets vis-à-vis frontier markets in improving portfolio diversification benefits

NM Thomas, S Kashiramka, SS Yadav… - International Review of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study examines the value addition provided by frontier markets vis-à-vis emerging
markets in improving the diversification benefits of an international portfolio. The analysis is …

Stock market reaction to COVID-19: A cross-sectional industry analysis in frontier market

ATM Adnan, SA Johani - IIM Kozhikode Society & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The effect of COVID-19 on the efficiency of frontier stock markets at the industrial level has
received little attention. This study aimed to analyze the Dhaka stock exchange's immediate …

Frontier markets' efficiency: mutual information and detrended fluctuation analyses

W Mohti, A Dionísio, P Ferreira, I Vieira - Journal of Economic Interaction …, 2019 - Springer
This study tests weak form efficiency in frontier markets. Mutual information and detrended
fluctuation analyses are performed to assess global correlation and long range dependence …

The nature and determinants of comovement between developed, emerging and frontier equity markets: Europe versus Asia‐Pacific

NM Thomas, S Kashiramka… - Thunderbird International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
International investors are increasingly attracted towards emerging and frontier markets
because of their potential to enhance diversification benefits of a global portfolio. This calls …

Volatility model choice for sub-Saharan frontier equity markets-A Markov regime switching Bayesian approach

CH Korkpoe, N Howard - EMAJ: Emerging Markets Journal, 2019 - emaj.pitt.edu
We adopt a granular approach to estimating the risk of equity returns in sub-Saharan African
frontier equity markets under the assumption that, returns are influenced by developments in …

Investment in microfinance equity: Risk, return, and diversification benefits

M Brière, A Szafarz - … , and Diversification Benefits (January 5, 2013 …, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full
advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should …

[BOOK][B] Understanding the readiness of banking industry employees to adopt artificial intelligence in frontier markets

AJM Mutumba - 2018 - search.proquest.com
The rate of technological change and its effect on business is occurring at an alarmingly
rapid pace. As a result of this, organisations seeking to increase their competitiveness are …

The Bucharest Stock Exchange case: Is BET-FI an index leader for the oldest indices BET and BET-C?

C Pop, D Bozdog, A Calugaru - International Business: Research …, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
The current paper provides an inside-out view regarding the internal diversification potential
of one frontier equity market, Bucharest Stock Exchange. In order to address the internal …