In this dissertation, three related issues of building empirical time series models forfinancial markets are investigated with respect to contemporaneous causality, dynamics,and structural change. In the first essay, nation-wide industry information transmissionamong stock returns of ten sectors...

Financial market and its various components are currently in turmoil. Many largecorporations are devising new ways to overcome the current market instability.Consequently, any study fostering the understanding of financial markets and thedependencies of various market components would greatly...

Using quarterly U.S. census division data for time period 1975-2006, this paper investigates the dynamic relationships among the house prices of nine divisions (regions): Pacific, Mountain, South Atlantic, Middle Atlantic, New England, East South Central, West South Central, West North Central,...

Investigation into the relations between market fundamentals and US natural gas prices is carried out in the regime-switching framework. To test the hypothesis that US natural gas market may switch between two states of market: bullish market and bearish market, a 2-state regime-switching model...