The distributions of Treasury security yields, returns, and volatility play critical roles in finance theory, and there are many papers that characterize features of these distributions. Our aim is to extend earlier work on short-term dependence of these by documenting and measuring long-range...

Summary Turkey experienced a massive banking crisis in February 2001, resulting in the loss of more than a thousand managerial jobs and the closure of 21% of all bank branches in the market. In this paper, we study the behavior of the market and the banks in Turkey before the crisis, from 1988...