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Does the entry of foreign investors influence the volatility of Doha Securities Market?

Ghassan, Hassan and Abdullah, Abdelgader (2009): Does the entry of foreign investors influence the volatility of Doha Securities Market? Published in: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance , Vol. 3, No. 4 (2010): pp. 359-373.

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The paper analyzes the time variation in volatility in the Doha Securities Market and examines the presence of structural changes in GARCH-based conditional volatility during the period 2002-2008. This issue is related to the market liberalization reforms permitting foreign investors to enter the equity market in 2005. The analysis reveals that there is a high risk in the return equation. It also indicates that the return is positively and more significantly related to the risk. The GARCH-Mean model shows that the volume term has a more significant parameter in both return and risk equations and that the information flow provided to the market comes from the risk and return variables. There is a high persistence of the shocks in the volatility, but it was less in the first sub-period compared to its persistence after the entry of foreign investors.

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