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...

The objective of this paper is to employ the generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic in the mean (GARCH-M) methodology to investigate the effect of interest rate and its volatility on the bank stock return generation process. This framework discards the restrictive assumptions...

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...