This paper examines the effect of the maturity of the futures contact used as the hedging instrument on the effectiveness of futures hedging. For this purpose, daily and monthly data on the WTI crude oil futures and spot prices are used to work out the hedge ratios and the measures of hedging...

China is accused of pursuing anti-rest-of the-world policies that cause the massive trade deficit of the US and the decline of its manufacturing industry. Specifically China is accused of adopting an exchange rate policy whereby a weak currency is maintained to the detriment of the rest of the...

A debate is raging on whether the U.S. is likely to experience hyperinflation (fire) or deflation (ice) as a result of post-crisis policies, particularly quantitative easing. Views have been put forward to suggest that the U.S. is heading towards ice, while others suggest that fire is the...

Over the last several years, the U.S. has been accusing China of manipulating its currency to keep it undervalued against the U.S. dollar. As a result, the prosecutor claims that the U.S. has been running a persistent trade deficit with China caused entirely by currency under-valuation. We argue...

In this paper, a structural time series model is estimated to analyse the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on stock prices for the US, UK and Japan. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood in a time-varying parametric framework, using the DJIA, S&P500, NASDAQ, FTSE100 and the NIKKEI225 as...

This paper investigates the impact of announcements of European environmental regulations on the French equity market. Using event study methodology and asset pricing models, we assess whether announcements of stringent and lax policies affect returns of environmentally-friendly businesses and...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the effects of environmental regulation announcements on corporate performance in China when performance is proxied by stock returns. While some results indicate the effectiveness of environmental regulation, others point to the opposite. The perverse...

Several explanations have been put forward for the observation that massive inflation has not appeared as a result of the explosive monetary growth generated by quantitative easing that was in 2008. Several plausible explanations have been put forward for this observation, but none of them can...