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Islamic spot and index futures markets : Where is the price discovery?

Karabiyik, Hande LU ; Narayan, Paresh Kumar ; Phan, Dinh Hoang Bach and Westerlund, Joakim LU (2018) In Pacific Basin Finance Journal 52. p.123-133
Abstract

This paper examines the source of price discovery for Islamic stocks. We pair a large number of Islamic stocks to country-specific index futures and estimate price discovery using a vector error correction model. The results obtained using data for 19 countries suggest that for most countries (63% of the sample) price discovery is dominated by the spot market. We show that for these countries, a mean-variance investor makes annualized average profit of 4.91% compared to an average buy-and-hold profit of 2.97% per annum.

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Asset pricing, Investors, Islamic stocks, Predictive regression, Price discovery
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Pacific Basin Finance Journal
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52
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123 - 133
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Elsevier
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0927-538X
DOI
10.1016/j.pacfin.2017.04.003
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English
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  author       = {{Karabiyik, Hande and Narayan, Paresh Kumar and Phan, Dinh Hoang Bach and Westerlund, Joakim}},
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  series       = {{Pacific Basin Finance Journal}},
  title        = {{Islamic spot and index futures markets : Where is the price discovery?}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.pacfin.2017.04.003}},
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