IRJFE issue 9

International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
Issue 10
July, 2007

Forecasting Volatility on the U.K. Stock Market: A Test of the Conditional Autoregressive Range Model Heng-Chih Chou and David Wang	7-13

Pricing Efficiency of Exchange Traded Funds in Turkey: Early Evidence from the Dow Jones Istanbul 20 Mustafa Mesut Kayali	14-23

The Cyclical Behavior of Highly Qualified and Low Qualified Workers in the Labor Market Ben-David Nissim	24-37

Dynamically Opted Protection Envelope (DOPE) – A Cost-Effective Strategy of Insuring an Investment Portfolio Sukanto Bhattacharya and Kuldeep Kumar	38-46

An Examination of the Price-Volume Relationship in the Option Markets D. Michael Long	47-56

Perceived Retirement Phobia as a Function of Age, Educational and Marital Status of Professional Soccer Players Ajayi, Michael Adeniyi	57-64

Which Interest Rate Option Model? I-Doun Kuo, Yueh-Neng Lin and You-Chien Chang	65-75

Crowding Out, Interest and Exchange Rate Shocks, and Bank Lending: Evidence from Turkey Suleyman Degirmen	76-87

Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in Northern Cyprus: A Time Series Analysis Huseyin Ozdeser and Ahmet Ozyigit	88-96

The Tax System and the Asymmetric Effect of Monetary Policy Osama D. Sweidan and Arqam Al-Rabbaie	97-106

Testing the General Equilibrium Model of Stock Index Futures: Evidence from the Asian Crisis Janchung Wang	107-116

Does the Interest Differential Explain Future Exchange Rate Return? A Re-Examination of the UIP Hypothesis for the Turkish Economy Cem Saatcioglu and Levent Korap	120-128

International Transmission of Volatility in the US Interest Rates into the Stock Returns: Some Comparative Evidence from World Equity Markets Alper Ozun	129-139

The Effects of Macroeconomic Factors on the London Stock Returns: A Sectoral Approach Nil Günsel and Sadık Çukur	140-152

A Research Study of Customer Preferences in the Home Loans Market: The Mortgage Experience of Greek Bank Customers John Mylonakis	153-166

Purchasing Power Parity Under the Current Float Songul Kakilli Acaravci and Ali Acaravci	167-174

A Survey of Investors’ Current Perceptions and Valuation Approaches at Jakarta Stock Exchange Totok Sugiharto, Eno L. Inanga and Roy Sembel	175-206