This paper provides a comprehensive statistical and economic evidence on the forecasting power of local-currency equity and bond returns in predicting exchange rate returns. We first construct out-of-sample (OOS) forecasts using various model specifications of equity and bond returns, and assess...

Framing stock and bond market characteristics as an endogenous and unified system, this paper investigates joint relationships between stock returns, stock trading volume, bond returns, and bond trading volume. Existing literature largely ignores reverse causality by considering an isolated...

This article examines the influence of IMF announcements as a source of news on currency and stock markets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. We use a set of IMF-related news for a sample of 14 emerging countries from December, 2019 to December, 2020. Our central finding is that IMF news...

Framing stock and bond market characteristics as an endogenous and unified system, this paper investigates joint relationships between stock returns, stock trading volume, bond returns, and bond trading volume. Existing literature largely ignores reverse causality by considering an isolated...

Using data from G5 developed countries, this paper investigates the impact of the financial crises on the integration of equity markets. To this end, a modified version of the Fama and French two-factor model (1998) such that the currency risk is incorporated as an additional economic risk...

This article examines the influence of IMF announcements as a source of news on currency and stock markets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. We use a set of IMF-related news for a sample of countries during the pandemic. Our central finding is that IMF news exerts a significant impact...