Application of Diffusion Models in the Analysis of Financial Markets: Evidence on Exchange Traded Funds in Europe
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Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are financial innovations that may be considered as a part of the index financial instruments category, together with stock index derivatives. The aim of this paper is to explore the trajectories and formulates predictions regarding the spread of ETFs on the financial markets in six European countries. It demonstrates ETFs’ development trajectories with regard to stock index futures and options that may be considered as their substitutes, e.g., in risk management. In this paper, we use mathematical models of the diffusion of innovation that allow unveiling the evolutionary patterns of turnover of ETFs; the time span of the analysis is 2004–2015, i.e., the period of dynamic changes on the European ETF markets. Such an approach has so far rarely been applied in this field of research. Our findings indicate that the development of ETF markets has been strongest in Italy and France and weaker in the other countries, especially Poland and Hungary. The results highlight significant differences among European countries and prove that diffusion has not taken place in all the cases; there are also considerable differences in the predicted development paths.
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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Risks
no. 8,
pages 1 - 23,
ISSN: 2227-9091 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Bibliographic description:
- Lechman E., Marszk A.: Application of Diffusion Models in the Analysis of Financial Markets: Evidence on Exchange Traded Funds in Europe// Risks -Vol. 8,iss. 1 (2020), s.1-23
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/risks8010018
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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