Book Description:
This book examines the dynamic linkages among the federal budget deficit, interest rates and the stock market for the United States from 1960 to 2006. Topics discussed herein include the strategic risk assessment techniques that can be applied to investment and trading portfolios in emerging financial markets, such as in the context of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets, as well as Africa's emerging capital markets and the financial crisis and whether the theory of periodically collapsing speculative bubbles can explain the dynamics of East Asian emerging stock market returns. (Imprint: Nova Press)

Table of Contents:
Preface

Federal Budget Deficits, Interest Rates and the General Stock Market;pp. 1-34
(Nikiforos T. Laopodis, Department of Finance, School of Business, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA)

Strategic Stock Markets Risk Assessment in Emerging Economies;pp. 35-61
(Mazin A. M. Al Janabi, Associate Professor of Finance and Banking, Department of Economics and Finance, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates)

Africa’s Emerging Capital Markets and the Financial Crisis;pp. 63-92
(Paul Alagidede, Division of Economics, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom)

Stock Market Bubbles and Crises: The Case of East Asian Emerging Markets;pp. 93-118
(Ekaterini Panopoulou, Theologos Pantelidis, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece, and others)

Market Reactions to the Disclosure of Internal Control Weaknesses under the Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2006;pp. 119-134
(Hiroyasu Kawanishi, Fumiko Takeda, KPMG AZSA & Co., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, and others)

Adaptive Wave Models for Option Pricing Evolution;pp. 135-150
(Vladimir G. Ivancevic, Defense Science & Technology, Organisation, Australia)

Reconsidering Stock Returns and Equity Mutual Fund Flows in the U.S. Stock Market: A Macro Approach;pp. 151-160
(Heung-Joo Cha, Jaebeom Kim, Department of Business Administration, University of Redlands, Redlands, California, USA, and Department of Economics, Oklahoma State Unversity, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA)

Reexamining Covariance Risk Dynamics in Global Stock Markets using Quantile Regression Analysis;pp. 161-189
(Ming-Yuan Leon Li, Dept. of Accountancy and Graduate Institute of Finance and Banking, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)*

Stock Market Volatility and the Great Moderation: New Evidence Based on the G-7 Economies;pp. 191-208
(Juncal Cunado, Javier Gomez Biscarri, Fernando Perez de Gracia, Universidad de Navarra, Spain, IESE Business School, Barcelona)*

Index pp.211-217