The VAR methodology of J. Y. Campbell and R. J. Shiller (1989) is employed under four different assumptions regarding equilibrium expected returns to assess the efficiency of the U.K. stock market. In the authors' first model, equilibrium expected (real) returns are assumed to be constant, while...

Using a number of maturities of up to one year and weekly high quality data on U.K. certificate of deposit rates, 1975-92, the authors provide a variety of tests of the expectations hypothesis of the term structure. Their results appear to give more support to the expectations hypothesis than do...

The authors test the expectations hypothesis (EH) of the term structure using U.K. and German weekly data on short dated instruments with maturities up to one year. For both data sets comprising k interest rates the authors find that the rank of the cointegrating space is (k - 1); but they can...