This paper examines two relationships using the bivariate GARCH methodology. First, the relationship between equity returns of commercial banks, Savings and Loans (S&Ls) and life insurance companies (LICs), and those of the real-estate investment trusts (REITs), a proxy for the real-estate...

We investigate the association between the stock return distributions of 10 major U.S. sectors and oil returns within a double-threshold FIGARCH model. This model nests GARCH, IGARCH and Fama-French specifications as its special cases and allows a test of their validity. This model also has the...

This study attempts to determine whether the level and volatility of interest rates affect the equity returns of commercial banks. Short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term interest rates are used. Volatility is defined as the conditional variance of respective interest rates and is generated...

Using the bivariate GARCH methodology, this study examines bank stock sensitivities to market, interest rate, and exchange rate, and investigates the spillover effects of interest rate volatility and unsystematic risk among the banking sectors of the United States and Japan, and the United...

This study employs a multivariate GARCH model to investigate the relative sensitivities of the first and the second moment of bank stock return distribution to the short-term and long-term interest rates and their respective volatilities. Three portfolios are formed representing the money center...