This paper provides a time-series test for the Differences-of-Opinion theory proposed by Hong and Stein (2003) in the aggregate market, thus extending Chen, Hong, and Stein's (2001) cross-sectional test for this theory across individual stocks. An autoregressive conditional density model with a...

This paper shows that the firm size (SZ) and the book-to-market ratio (BM) cannot fully explain stock returns on prior-return-based portfolios in Japan. The overreaction effect after controlling for SZ and BM effects is significant and plays an important role in explaining the zero-investment...

The difficulty of short-selling stocks in the Chinese markets conforms to the assumption of the quot;Differences-of-Opinionquot; theory and therefore, provides an empirical framework for testing the theory. Our results show evidence supporting the theory: heavier trading predicts a more...

This paper analyzes the relationship between diversification and several distributional characteristics that have risk implications for stock returns. We develop a flexible three-parameter distribution to model the stock returns. Using data on the current 30 DJIA stocks, we show that an...

This article proposes a dual targets monetary policy rule for small open economies. In addition to a domestic monetary target, this rule targets the nominal exchange rate at a fixed level. The policy rule is derived from a dynamic programming problem and evaluated in the context of an...

Studies have claimed that the “idiosyncratic volatility puzzle” in the firm-level data can be explained by certain time-series properties of the firm-specific shocks. The absence of this puzzle in the country-level index data implies that the time-series properties of the country-specific...

This article investigates whether the Central Bank of China in Taiwan (CBC) would have had a more successful monetary policy during the period 1978:3 to 1999:4 if it had followed an optimal rule rather than the discretionary policies that were actually employed. The article examines the use of...

This article investigates the channels through which the short-term interest rate is used as an instrument to stabilize the exchange rates in Asia during the financial crisis in the 1990s. A time-varying-parameter model with Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH)...

Cross-country output convergence is re-examined using a flexible concept of unit roots. While the presence of a constant unit root in output-differences implies nonconvergence, the presence of a stochastic unit root on the contrary implies convergence. Using the output-differences between the...