This paper hypothesizes that the increase in money supply induced by rapid economic growth leads to strong investment demand in the Taiwanese housing market. A threshold model is used to confirm money supply as the key threshold variable. When the growth rate of money supply is below the model's...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate whether and how various sentiments affect the stock market's reaction to the ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index) information.Design/methodology/approach: The portfolio approach with time-varying risk factor loadings and the asset-pricing models are...

In this study, we examine how a firm's advertising and R&D affects the firm's β-risk and idiosyncratic risk, which are metrics of interest to both finance executives and senior management. Due to the existence of non-normal finance data and heteroscedasticity, this study uses quantile...

Past behavioral research has provided evidence that fund investors have the ability to predict fund performance, called the smart money effect. In this study we examine whether the smart money effect exists in the Taiwanese mutual fund market. Specifically, we investigate whether the smart money...

Prior studies have found that a firm's advertising for one of its products can spill over and enhance sales for other existing products with the same brand name. This study examines whether the advertising spillover effect exists in the mutual fund market. The evidence shows that advertised...

This paper investigates how advertising influences the patterns of fund investor's post-purchase behavior as related to fund performance. The evidence shows that fund consumer behavior is influenced by mutual fund advertising in ways similar to goods markets. We find that fund investors are...

The primary purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic causal relationships between house price and its five determinants, including total household income, short-run interest rates, stock price index, construction costs, and housing completions, in Taipei new dwelling market. Granger causality...

We develop a dynamic model of order submission strategies in an order-driven market, where traders differ in their share valuations. Our model shows that several factors influence the uninformed trader¡¦s choice of order to submit: the market price, the expected asset value, the probability of...

In 2007, a number of stock funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) tended to invest in Asian markets due to their outstanding performance during the period prior to 2006. However, can this move increase the covariate between the stock and REIT markets in Asian markets as well as further...

This paper uses a numerical simulation based on the Crank-Nicolson method to estimate the value of a fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) with embedded prepayment and non-defaultable options. We find that the value of the FRM will increase when interest rates decrease, increasing the incentive for...