We study the determinants of capital structure for 650 Chinese publicly listed companies over the period from1999 to 2004.We posit that a firm's decision on capital structure is inherently dynamic, and estimate the resulting dynamic capital structure model. The main findings of the paper are as...

There is a substantial empirical literature which examines the relationship between private and public consumption. The conclusions from this literature, however, are generally mixed. In this paper, we attempt to provide some additional evidence on this relationship. We consider a two-good...

In this paper, we examine whether adjustment costs are a significant source of the observed sluggish adjustment of Canadian and US import demand. We use a simple model of a utility maximizing domestic consumer under the assumption of integrated forcing variables to examine the importance of...

Using the degree of accessibility of foreign investors to emerging stock markets, or investibility, as a proxy for the extent of foreign investments, we assess whether investibility has a significant influence on the diffusion of global market information across stocks in emerging markets. We...

There is evidence to suggest that a single factor of duration running on single time scale is not adequate to capture the dynamics of the duration process of financial transaction data. This assertion is motivated by the observation that some existing one-factor stochastic duration models have...

This paper studies a stochastic conditional duration (SCD) model with a mixture of distribution processes for financial asset’s transaction data. Specifically it imposes a mixture of two positive distributions on the innovations of the observed duration process, where the mixture component...

This paper proposes a threshold stochastic conditional duration (TSCD) model to capture the asymmetric property of financial transactions. The innovation of the observable duration equation is assumed to follow a threshold distribution with two component distributions switching between two...

This paper extends stochastic conditional duration (SCD) models for financial transaction data to allow for correlation between error processes or innovations of observed duration process and latent log duration process. Novel algorithms of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) are developed to fit...

The limiting distributions of two unit-root test statistics are derived and discussed for data that have both cross-sectional and time-series dimensions.