The paper examines the long-run relationship between banking sector development, stock market development and economic growth in 26 ASEAN regional forum (ARF) countries for the period 1961-2012. Using principal component analysis for the construction of development indices and panel vector...

This article investigates short-run as well as long-run relationships, and also causality relationships between banking sector development and the economic growth of India for which empirical analysis is performed using annual data. We use a new data set of banking sector development indicators...

In this paper, we show that scaled conditional volatilities obtained by the square root formula applied to i.i.d residuals from a sample of Canadian stock market data for various time horizons and error distributions, typically underestimate the true conditional volatility; consistently have a...

In an attempt to examine efficiency of South Korea's stock market (SKM), Narayan and Smyth (2004) used a battery of unit root tests to investigate the random walk hypothesis and on the basis of the reported evidence for unit root, they concluded that the SKM is efficient. The authors have...