We propose a local linear functional coefficient estimator that admits a mix of discrete and continuous data for stationary time series. Under weak conditions our estimator is asymptotically normally distributed. A small set of simulation studies is carried out to illustrate the finite sample...

The neo-classical finance theory suggests that capital markets can reasonably reflect the value of listed companies, but it ignores the link between the real economy and the capital market. The current study conducts an analysis of the relevance of the stock return volatility to the company's...

The primary contribution of the current paper is to explicitly take into consideration the role of asymmetries in oil prices when studying the nexus between oil price shocks and the real exchange rates across 13 countries in three regions of Asia. To achieve this contribution, the nonlinear...