This paper investigates which US stock price index is strongly influenced by the Japanese stock markets. Our empirical tests as to the time-varying correlations derived from a multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) model reveal the following evidence....

This paper examines the relations between corporate profitability and capital structures of the machinery industry firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Some theories and models predict different relations between corporate profitability and firms¡¯ capital structures. In this paper, we...

This paper examines Jensen's [<italic>J. Finance</italic>, 1968, <bold>23</bold>, 389--416] alphas and the time-varying return premia unexplained by standard risk factors in Japan and presents several new findings. First, in contrast to the US experience, positive alphas remain after Fama and French's three factors are...

This paper explores the linkage among cash holdings, dividend policies, and stock returns of the automobile related firms at the Tokyo Stock Exchange by employing the panel data analyses. In addition, our research focuses on the two periods: before and after the US Lehman shock. The main...

Theory predicts that, if stock and stock index futures markets operate efficiently, price movements in these markets should follow a first-order vector error correction model in which the error correction term represents the basis, and in which there are no regimes. However, following Brooks and...

This paper tests the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates in seven major international markets from the perspective of behavioural finance. Using a cointegration and error correction approach, we find significant empirical support for the expectations hypothesis for...

The objective of this paper is to determine the best predictor of equity market crashes by focusing particularly on volatility and market liquidity. In finance, volatility has traditionally been regarded as the best measure of market risk. However, this paper shows that the forecast value of...

The objective of this paper is to reveal the situations of time-series changes of the covariations of stock returns between the Japanese markets and other Asian and Asia-pacific markets. In this paper, we first statistically revealed that the connections between stock returns between the...