It is well known that volatilities and correlations of international stock markets tend to increase in times of financial instability. A dynamic rebalancing scheme is proposed where the underlying market volatility functions as a timing device and portfolio is only rebalanced when the underlying...

This study investigates the investment styles of Chinese funds. The index-based multi-factor model is introduced, allowing the asset allocation to bond assets. The evidence shows herding behaviour among funds. It is found that Chinese funds strongly prefer large-cap stocks and slightly prefer...

This paper evaluates accuracy and rationality of real GDP forecasts made by 38 Japanese private institutions over the past 22 years. It finds that about 80% of current-year forecasts and year-ahead forecasts made by them pass various tests for rationality. Moreover, the encompassing test reveals...

Financial investors tend to sell winners too early and ride losers too long. Therefore, demand for financial advice should be high in a bull market and low in a bear market. This hypothesis is tested and a positive relation is found between the sales of investor magazines and the development of...

This study proposes a new proxy variable for the speculative trading activities in the analysis of relationship between volatility and trading activities. With the new variable, it examines the dynamic interaction among underlying bond market volatility, futures trading volume, open interest and...

This paper extends the empirical no-arbitrage Gaussian affine term structure model of Cassola and Luis (2003) in a way that leads to a Taylor rule expression for the short rate dynamics. The empirical results indicate that the dynamics of the German term structure of interest rates can be...

This study investigates the shareholder wealth effects of voluntary foreign delistings for the first time using a sample of US firms delisted voluntarily from Japan. Using conventional event study methodology, no significant price changes are found following the delisting events, consistent with...

It has been empirically shown in the USA that a positive slope of the yield curve is associated with a future increase in real economic activity. However, the present study's empirical examination reveals that the term structure in Japan has almost no predictive power for real economic changes,...

The primary objective of this paper is to add to the growing debate about the impact of the Basel II Capital Accord (see Base II, June 2004) on the functioning of internationally active banks. A technical contribution is made to this discussion by constructing a stochastic continuous-time model...

This article examines the international stock market correlations between Japan vis-à-vis the Asian Four Tigers (Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea) using Engle's (2002) dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) analysis. Daily data from 1990 to 2003 are used in this study. The results...