Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct a price index for Chinese oil paintings and analyze the financial performance of investing in Chinese oil paintings and its potential for portfolio diversification in Chinese financial markets. Design/methodology/approach A hedonic regression...

Purpose – This study aims to propose a model-free statistic that tests asymmetric correlations of stock returns, in which stocks move more often with the market when the market goes down than when it goes up, and then empirically analyze the asymmetric correlations of the China stock market...

This paper extends Hong et al. (2007)’s model-free test to analyze the contagion. A simulation experiment reveals that our test has reasonable size and good power in finite sample. We use this test and find the strong evidence of contagion between crude oil and stock markets.