Recent studies add to the evidence against Miller's (1977) overvaluation theory, further dwarfing the already sparse evidence for the theory. In this paper, we identify several issues untouched so far. Addressing these issues simultaneously, we conceive a novel empirical identification strategy...

The contemporaneous call options volume have a significant strong positive feedback effect on the implied volatility, but the contemporaneous feedback effect of volume on the TARCH volatility is insignificant. The contemporaneous feedback effects from the implied volatility and the TARCH...

We show 90 equity-commodity market correlations around the world have fluctuated about their respective broken trends since the early 1990s. Each of past eight major financial crises has precipitated breaks in the levels/slopes of some correlation trends, and each correlation trend has been...

In 2015, China implemented a debt-to-bond swap program that required local governments to replace outstanding debts with local government bonds, which are considered low-risk assets for commercial banks under Basel III regulations. We study the empirical effects of the debt-swap program on bank...

This paper proposes a convenient approach to measure the time-varying volatility connectedness indexes by developing the connectedness measures within a multivariate Heterogeneous Autoregressive model with measurement errors (VHAR-Q). We utilize this framework to examine the dynamic volatility...

This paper examines asymmetry in exchange rate dependence between domestic and foreign currencies vis-à-vis some world currencies for small inflation targeters, and find mixed evidence. Positive-type asymmetry (i.e., greater dependence during joint appreciations than joint depreciations) is...

Addressing the view that recent hikes in the commodity-equity correlation will only be temporary, this paper differentiates itself from previous studies in two aspects: It examines the long-run trends and the short-run fluctuations of the commodity-equity correlation, and it does so to indices...