This paper examines the role of market, interest rate, and exchange rate risks in pricing a sample of the U.S. commercial bank stocks by developing and estimating a multi-factor model under both unconditional and conditional frameworks. Three different econometric methodologies are used to...

This paper investigates whether the existence of pricing anomalies represents compensation for bearing extra-market risks by directly testing a version of Merton's (1973) Intertemporal CAPM (ICAPM), allowing for both time-varying first and second moments of asset returns. The conditional ICAPM...

This paper tests whether bank can be a source of contagion during the 1997 Asian crisis using asset return data from a crisis country - Thailand. In particular, I examine whether Thai banking sector can produce contagion effects in both conditional means and volatilities of its foreign exchange...

This paper studies time-varying price of risk and volatility in Asia-Pacific forward exchange markets in an attempt to see whether currency risk can be a potential source of risk premium to explain forward premium puzzle. To derive a measure of the risk premium, a conditional version of...

This paper tests whether there are pure contagion effects in both conditional means and volatilities among British pound, Canadian dollar, Deutsche mark, and Swiss franc futures markets during the 1992 ERM crisis. A conditional version of international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM) in the...