...Petros Gkiosis; Xanthippi Chapsa Purpose This study investigates whether real house prices in Greece respond asymmetrically to key macroeconomic fundamentals and whether such asymmetries are consistent with downward price rigidity. Motivated by the persistent rise in property prices and its...

...Tho Nguyen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the spillover effect of the US macroeconomic news on the first two moments of the Vietnamese stock market returns. Design/methodology/approach The author collected market expectation and actual announcements data for 12 key US...

...Karam Pal; Ruhee Mittal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the long‐run relationship between the Indian capital markets and key macroeconomic variables such as interest rates, inflation rate, exchange rates and gross domestic savings (GDS) of Indian economy. Design/methodology...

... The analysis would appear to be the first to provide evidence and investigate the time to bank failure in the North Cyprus banking sector. Nil Gunsel can be contacted at: ngunsel@neu.edu.tr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Microeconomics Macroeconomics Banks Business failure Cyprus...

...Khaled Hussainey; Le Khanh Ngoc Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of macroeconomic indicators (the interest rate and the industrial production) on Vietnamese stock prices. The paper examines how US macroeconomic indicators affect Vietnamese stock prices. Design...

...Charles K.D. Adjasi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on stock‐price volatility in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The method of analysis is in two stages. The first stage estimates univariate volatility models for each macroeconomic...

...Anthony Kyereboah‐Coleman; Kwame F. Agyire‐Tettey Purpose The study aims at examining how macroeconomic indicators affect the performance of stock markets by using the Ghana Stock Exchange as a case study. Design/methodology/approach Quarterly time series data covering the period 1991‐2005...

... and robust methodology, coupled with the fact that studies of this nature are virtually non‐existent in Ghana. Macroeconomics Exchange rates Volatility International investments Sub Saharan Africa Ghana In recent years, especially since 1994, the government of Ghana has been making strenuous...