FINANCIAL RESEARCH
Year:2017 | Volume:19 | Issue:3 |Papers Count:8

The synchronization of business cycles is one of the latest issues that has been raised recently in the field of international trade as economic integration between countries has increased. Accordingly, considering the impact of the flow of business cycles on the economy of Iran and the process of integration of domestic market with the international financial markets, it is important to determine the impact of their business cycles synchronization and the effect of synchronization on the friction of financial markets and the financial depth. Due to the formation of business cycles and the process of friction and financial depth, the Switching Bayesian VAR (MSBVAR) method was used. The results showed that the synchronization of trade cycles between Iran and Germany during the 1985-2015 indicates the high coincidence and symmetry between the two business cycles. It was also found that the financial friction plays a significant role in justifying the degree of synchronization of business cycles during global financial crises. The regime 1 (the recession) has been more stable than the regime 2 (inflation) and it is highly probable to remain within the regime 1.

The Main aim of this study is to present a pattern to recognize the financial constraints and to rank the listed companies in Tehran stock exchange from the viewpoint of their financial constraints. To do so, studying the thematic literature and previous studies, 19 variables have been chosen to present the pattern. Then, the final pattern of financial constraints is presented based on operational cash flow using multi-variable regression tool with tabloid data. The statistical population of this study includes 171 firms during the time period of 2007-2017. At last, the final pattern of the study was presented with the abbreviated title of (BNPO) and incorporating 9 variables including: ROA, size of the firm, firm value, cash ratio, sales growth ratio, working capital ratio, operational profit ratio, sales ratio, and debt expense ratio were determined with a clarity rate of 46 percent.

The main objective of this research is to investigate the effects of previous and current changes in monetary policy, foreign exchange market and gold-coin market on the overall performance of Tehran Stock Market. For this purpose, monthly reports of liquidity, exchange rate, gold-coin price and Tehran Stock Exchange Index were collected in the period from April 2001 to March 2017. The data were then analyzed using the MS-VAR and EGARCH approaches. The results of the estimation of the research model showed that in a model with two regimes, the former exchange rate return has a significantly positive effect on the return of stock market index and there is a significantly negative relationship between the performance of the stock market index and gold coin return in the regime one. Regarding the regime zero, the results were indicative of a positive and significant relationship between the past values of liquidity growth and the return of the stock market index. The results also showed that current shocks of exchange rate and liquidity have a significantly negative effect on the returns of Tehran stock exchange index.

Information asymmetry is one of the most important uncertainties that investors are faced with. Empirical evidence states that information asymmetry is undiversifiable; hence, it’ s expected to be priced and have an effect on the expected rate of return. The probability of informed trading (PIN) is the most popular indicator of information risk. This study aims to examine the pricing of information risk and its origin, for the first time, through dividing PIN into two sections of adjusted probability of informed trading (AdjPIN) and probability of symmetric order shocks (PSOS). For this purpose, the relationship between stock return and PIN components was examined through Fama-MacBeth regression (1973) in a sample of 43 companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange from 2009 to 2015. The results stated that the adjusted probability of informed trading is priced; however, the probability of symmetric order shocks did not have a statistically significant effect. The same results were also obtained after volume changing through earning announcement periods.

With regard to the prominent role of mutual funds in financial markets, this study aims to examine the relationship between the mutual fund flows and the index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TEDPIX). For this purpose, the researchers used the daily data of 90 mutual funds during the period from March 2011 to March 2016 through "hidden co-integration approach and CECM. The study’ s contribution is the implementation of hidden cointegration technique which enables researchers to identify the reaction of heterogeneous changes amongst two time series. Although, the results showed a hidden co-integration relationship between time series of mutual fund flows and TEDPIX, the findings of the study did not approve the standard co-integration relation amongst two time series. More specifically, there is a long-run relationship between positive components of flows and indexes, and another long-run relationship between the negative components and indices.

Index tracking is a passive investment which aims to form portfolio with a limited number of stocks to catch the same behavior in regard with the market index. The active portfolio management seeks to outpace the market while the passive portfolio management is looking for the similar risk-return pattern regarding the market index. The passive portfolio management has increasingly attracted the attention of investors because of its lower costs. In this research, co-integration and correlation approaches are used for index tracking and enhanced indexing. Our benchmark index is Tehran Exchange Dividend & Price Index (TEDPIX). Out-sample results showed that any increase of in-sample time period will improve the performance of the models. In addition, considering tracking error, cointegration approach has proved to have a better performance than the correlation approach. On the other hand, considering portfolio returns and data and sharp ratios, the performance of the model for index tracking is better than the performance of the enhanced indexing model.

In the recent years, financial assets markets have faced with a variety of uncertainties like financial crisis, Oil momentums, currency policy changes and some similar ones. Occurrence of shocks which are considered as weak degrees of crisis has always accompanied with the effects in the micro and macro levels. Besides, occurrence of shocks may not be limited to targeted market, but could spill-over to other markets, especially financial markets. Therefore, the estimation of the severity and the causality of spillover from one market to another have special importance. The survey aims to assess the currency shock effect and its systemic risk severity in the financial market named capital, insurance and money markets. In this regard, by selection of difference of conditional value at risk estimator based on the quantile regression, estimation of systemic risk in the financial markets based on the quarterly periods from second quarterly of 2000 until fourth quarterly of 2016 have been provided. First step consequences confirmed that currency shocks were effective in reinforcing risk of the three markets and the results of the second step offering a systemic risk assessment showed that insurance market has faced the most exposure and contagion than the other markets. In addition, the contagion severity in the capital market and money market are among the other indicators. Finally, policy makers should prevent formation of financial crisis or diminish the effects of fluctuations or spillover by offering a comprehensive plan and adopting appropriate strategies.