This paper examines whether Japan's financial deregulation weakened the linkage between the Euroyen and Gensaki markets. It defines and analyzes the linkage of the two markets in terms of the persistence and predictability of yield spreads, as well as cross-market causality. By using Johansen...

This paper proposes four estimators for factor GARCH models: two-stage univariate GARCH (2SUE), two-stage quasi-maximum likelihood (2SML), quasi-maximum likelihood with known factor weights (RMLE), quasi-maximum likelihood with unknown factor weights (MLE). A Monte-Carlo study is designed for...