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Athanasios P. Fassas

University of Thessaly
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Flight-to-quality between global stock and bond markets in the COVID era

S Papadamou, AP Fassas, D Kenourgios… - Finance Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic on the time-varying correlation
between stock and bond returns. Using daily data on bond and stock returns for ten countries…

Price discovery in bitcoin futures

AP Fassas, S Papadamou, A Koulis - Research in International Business …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper studies the contribution of the newly launched future contracts to the bitcoin price
discovery process. Using well-established methodologies in the literature of the evaluation …

Implied volatility indices–A review

AP Fassas, C Siriopoulos - The Quarterly Review of Economics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study tests and documents the information content of all publicly available implied
volatility indices regarding both the realized volatility and the returns of the underlying asset. …

[PDF][PDF] Risk aversion connectedness in developed and emerging equity markets before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

AP Fassas - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
This study investigates the dynamic connectedness across the variance risk premium in
international developed and emerging equity markets based on a Bayesian time-varying …

Intraday price discovery and volatility spillovers in an emerging market

AP Fassas, C Siriopoulos - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper extends the study of price discovery and volatility transmission between the cash
and futures index prices in Athens Exchange by using a new high-frequency dataset. It also …

Variance risk premium and equity returns

AP Fassas, S Papadamou - Research in International Business and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study contributes to the age-old question of whether stock market returns are
predictable by investigating the relationship of variance risk premium and equity returns. The …

Effects of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on implied stock market volatility: International evidence using a google trend measure

S Papadamou, AP Fassas, D Kenourgios… - The Journal of Economic …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the relationship between investors' attention, as measured by Google
search queries, and equity implied volatility during the COVID-19 outbreak. Recent studies …

Unconventional monetary policy announcements and risk aversion: evidence from the US and European equity markets

AP Fassas, S Papadamou - The European Journal of Finance, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the role of unconventional monetary policy announcements on risk
aversion – as proxied by the variance premium – by using panel data analysis. The objective of …

[PDF][PDF] Tracking ability of ETFs: Physical versus synthetic replication

AP Fassas - The Journal of Index Investing, 2014 - researchgate.net
(ETFs) and tests whether there is a statistically significant difference between the two replication
methods. The empirical analysis sheds light on explaining whether investors who prefer …

[HTML][HTML] Cannabis stocks returns: the role of liquidity and investors' attention via Google metrics

…, A Koulis, C Kyriakopoulos, AP Fassas - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper studies one of the most popular investment themes over recent years, investing
in the cannabis industry. In particular, it investigates relationships between investor attention, …