This paper studies the economic significance of stock and bond return predictability in UK market over period February 1991 to May 2002, based on a real-time investment simulation with only publicly available information. We use ten macroeconomic and financial variables as the predicting...

This paper studies the economic significance of stock and bond return predictability in UK market over period February 1991 to May 2002, based on a real-time investment simulation with only publicly available information. We use ten macroeconomic and financial variables as the predicting...

This paper investigates empirically the change(s) in the long-run relationship(s) between the stock prices of eight Far East countries around the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998. Further tests are conducted to check the change in the influence of the Japanese and the US stock markets in the...

This paper empirically investigates the effects of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, and the period immediately afterwards, on the time-varying beta of four industrial sectors (chemical, finance, retail and industry) of Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. We apply daily data from...

This paper examines the pattern of interaction among Asian exchange rates, and how the pattern changed before and during/after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. The empirical tests are conducted using daily nominal exchanges rates based on the US dollar and the Japanese yen from several Far...

This paper pioneers the study of the economic significance of the monthly seasonality in the emerging markets. Previous literature on the seasonal anomaly, mainly on big and developed markets, has often reported that the anomaly is insignificant after considering the transaction costs. Using...