Shaker Ahmed

• M.Sc.
• University of Vaasa

This paper investigates the effect of the Russia–Ukraine crisis on the Australian stock market. Using the event study methodology, we find significantly negative abnormal returns on the event date (i.e., the first trading day after Russia recognized the two Ukrainian states as autonomous regions) in the Australian stock market. However, this negati...

This paper examines the effect of facial attractiveness on the compensation of bank Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). Consistent with the so-called beauty premium hypothesis, we document that good looks pay off for bank CEOs. Specifically, by utilizing machine learning to assess the facial appearance of the CEOs of large U.S. banks, we find that CEO...

We examine the effect of the Russia-Ukraine crisis on the European stock markets. Because of increased political uncertainty, geographic proximity, and the ramifications of the fresh sanctions imposed on Russia, the European stock markets, integrated trading partners of the Russian economy, tended to react negatively to this crisis. We find that on...

This paper studies simple moving average trading strategies employing daily price data on the ten most-traded cryptocurrencies that exhibit the ‘privacy function’. Investigating the 2016–2018 period, our results indicate a variable moving average strategy is successful only when applied to Dash generating returns of 14.6%−18.25% p.a. in excess of t...

This paper studies simple moving average trading strategies employing daily price data on the eleven most-traded cryptocurrencies in the 2016–2018 period. Our results indicate a variable moving average strategy is successful when using the 20 days moving average trading strategy. Specifically, excluding Bitcoin the technical trading rule generate a...

We examine the significance of extreme positive returns of the previous month (MAX) as a return predictor in the Finnish stock market. We show that high fear months, i.e., months associated with the investor’s high expectation for future volatility, are accompanying with low MAX effect implying that investors reluctant to gamble in high MAX stocks...

In this paper, we show that extreme returns can predict future returns in the Turkish stock market. We find that extreme return (high MAX) generating stocks show a lower performance in the next month in this market. More explicitly, there is a strong negative relationship between the firm’s maximum (MAX) daily returns over the previous month and it...

This paper uses Chief Executive Officer (CEO) facial features to examine the association between CEO masculinity and bank risk-taking. Given that high facial width-to-height ratio has been linked to high testosterone levels and masculine behavioral traits such as increased risk tolerance, aggression, and sensation seeking, we postulate a positive r...