Comovements among asset prices have received a lot of attention for several reasons. For example, comovements are important in cross-hedging and cross-speculation; they determine capital allocation both domestically and in international mean-variance portfolios and also, they are useful in...

Counterfeiting is a well known world-wide phenomenon afflicting several real economies. Notwithstanding the importance of this topic, there are not many works about it in the literatute; moreover, these contributions mainly deal with counterfeiting employing a model developed in a static time...

Recently Chairman Greenspan (2003 and 2004) has discussed a risk management approach to the implementation of monetary policy. This paper explores the economic environment of the 1990s and the policy dilemmas the Fed faced given the stock boom from the mid to late 1990s to after the bust in...

Economists have long conjectured that movements in stock prices may involve speculative components. This bubble, as it is usually referred to, is defined as the difference between the market value of a security and its fundamental value. Although there are several important theoretical issues...

Numerous studies have estimated U.S. stock market returns measured by various indexes such as the Samp;P 500 Index over certain periods. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first we calculate, under certain scenarios, the final total accumulation of a representative individual who invests a...

The phenomenal growth of individual retirement accounts in the U.S., and globally, challenges both individuals and their advisors to rationally manage these investments. The two essential differences between an individual retirement account and an institutional portfolio are the length of the...

This paper considers several important macroeconomic variables such as inflation, Federal funds rates and unemployment along with behavioral variables such as momentum trading to explain excessive U.S. equity returns during the post World War II era. The theoretical hypotheses propose three...

This paper considers several important macroeconomic variables such as inflation, federal funds rates and unemployment along with behavioral variables such as momentum trading to explain excessive U.S. equity returns during the post World War II era. The theoretical hypotheses propose three...

Among the various shocks that may cause financial instabilities, the bursting of asset bubbles has received most attention during the last decade. This paper discusses the risk management of financial instabilities caused by asset price crashes and evaluates the appropriate role of central...

This paper argues that the Fed was not stock market bubble-neutral during the last several years. This nonneutrality implies two options: first, the Fed has used monetary policies to prevent the building of the stock market bubble or, second, the Fed has contributed to its development and...