The constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) achieves the advantage of simplicity due to its constant multiple. However, a dynamic multiple could improve the effectiveness of portfolio management. In this article, we provide a complete and detailed examination of the mechanism of variable...

Owing to the growing importance of the Taiwan Top 50 Tracker Fund (TTT), the first and the only Taiwanese Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), this study investigates the change in the volatility of the component stocks of the Taiwan 50 Index after the introduction of TTT. Using the volatility measure...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the impact of the introduction of foreign investments on the information transmissions between the futures and spot markets in terms of volatility spillovers when macroeconomic factors are controlled in emerging futures markets. We find evidence of...

This paper investigates the duration dynamics and relationship between price volatility and durations under different market trends for the Morgan Stanley Taiwan stock index futures traded on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). It is found that conditional durations are related to durations and...

This study examines the synergistic effects of advertising spending and new product preannouncements (NPPAs) on stock market responses. The empirical results indicate that returns of preannouncing firms over both the short- and long-term could be improved by an increase in advertising...

This study presents a novel model for analyzing duration data, called the smooth transition autoregressive conditional duration model of price and duration, which considers past price changes and durations. The model enables the process of the conditional expected duration to switch in a smooth...

In this paper, we apply the asymptotic theory of panel cointegration developed by Kao and Chiang (1998) to Coe and Helpman's (1995) international R&D spillovers regression. The OLS with bias-correction, the fully-modified (FM) and the dynamic OLS (DOLS) estimations produce different predictions...

Taiwan Top 50 Tracker Fund (TTT) is the first Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in Taiwan. This study investigates the impact of TTT on the liquidity of the constituent stocks. The empirical result coincides with the expectation of arbitrage hypothesis that the liquidity of the constituents is...

This study investigates how limit orders affect liquidity in a purely order-driven futures market. Additionally, the possible asymmetric relationship between market depth and transitory volatility in bull and bear markets and the effect of institutional trading on liquidity provision behavior...