The VAR methodology of J. Y. Campbell and R. J. Shiller (1989) is employed under four different assumptions regarding equilibrium expected returns to assess the efficiency of the U.K. stock market. In the authors' first model, equilibrium expected (real) returns are assumed to be constant, while...

Using a number of maturities of up to one year and weekly high quality data on U.K. certificate of deposit rates, 1975-92, the authors provide a variety of tests of the expectations hypothesis of the term structure. Their results appear to give more support to the expectations hypothesis than do...

The authors test the expectations hypothesis (EH) of the term structure using U.K. and German weekly data on short dated instruments with maturities up to one year. For both data sets comprising k interest rates the authors find that the rank of the cointegrating space is (k - 1); but they can...

We investigate the performance of winners and losers for German equity mutual funds (1990-2009), using empirical order statistics. When using gross returns and the Fama-French three-factor model, the number of statistically significant positive alpha funds is zero but increases markedly when...

Using a comprehensive data set of almost 300 UK closed-end equity funds over the period 1990 to 2013, we use the false discovery rate to assess the alpha-performance of individual funds with both domestic and other mandates, using self-declared benchmarks and additional risk factors. We find...