Based on technical analysis and White's and Hansen's data-snooping-robust tests, we examine the efficiency of the Taiwan-U.S. forward foreign exchange market and find that, unlike the spot market, the forward market is inefficient even under a very high transaction cost, suggesting that the...

In this paper we reexamine the relationship between patents and R&D using empirical likelihood estimation. Based on the data of Hall, Griliches, and Hausman (1986) and the specification allowing for endogenous regressors, we found that the contemporaneous effect of R&D is significantly positive,...

This paper examines the predictive ability of the consumption-wealth ratio for the U.S. bear stock market using quarterly data on the S&P500 index. By evaluating the in-sample and out-of-sample performance with, respectively, the Pseudo-$R^2$ and the quadratic probability score, it is found that...