This study examines the impact of financial liberalization on the returns and volatility of eleven emerging stock markets. Time points of structural changes in the data are detected first based on the iterated cumulative sums of squares (ICSS) algorithm developed by Incl?n and Tiao (1994). Using...

We propose an entropic model of extrinsic utility arising out of the element of choice regarding portfolio re-balancing strategies available to an individual investor who has chosen to invest in a financial structured product with a terminal payoff same as that from a rainbow option. We also...

Taiwan Top 50 Tracker Fund (TTT) is the first Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in Taiwan. This study investigates the impact of TTT on the liquidity of the constituent stocks. The empirical result coincides with the expectation of arbitrage hypothesis that the liquidity of the constituents is...

This paper investigates the price-volume relationships of Taiwan's stock and foreign exchange markets. We first adopt the traditional linear Granger causality test to achieve this goal. In addition, the nonlinearity feature is also taken into account. We employ the nonlinear Granger causality...

This paper extends the theoretical model of Liaw et al. (2004) to incorporate the supply shocks of output. For a country adopting dual floating exchange rate system and facing the supply shocks will cause the price level to increase persistently. If the price level reaches the price ceiling...

This paper employs an incremental approach to explore the determinants of corporate debt financing strategies such as the factors of the issuing costs, information asymmetry, growth opportunity, credit quality and managerial ownership. Addition to univariate analysis model, we use multiple logit...

It has been increasingly recognized that the competitive opportunities of industrial clusters have become a critical element of national, state, regional, and local plan activities. The Hsinchu Science-based Industry Park is the most successful industry cluster of Taiwan, it was established in...

During the past few decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has rapidly increased and has enhanced the world's economic growth. Although FDI has become one of the major driving forces of global economic development, related international investment legal instruments has not been adequately...

Because the structural change of a time series from one pattern to another may not switch at once but rather experience a period of adjustment, conventional change point detection may be inappropriate under some circumstances. Furthermore, changes in time series often occur gradually so that...

Previous studies on tax evasion and government size have not specified the "political mechanism" through which increasing difficulties with tax evasion might lead to government expansion. This paper attempts to fill in the gap. We extend the celebrated Meltzer and Richard (1981) model to a...