Using a regime-switching regression model, we provide evidence of the synchronization of East Asian (Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Taiwan) currencies-dollar exchange rates with yen dollar exchange rates and report that the export similarity index and FDI between Japan and this...

We reassess the degree of exchange rate co-movement between the Japanese yen and 5 emerging Asian currencies relative to the US dollar in the 2000s. It is often claimed that these currencies have been closely tied with the Japanese yen possibly due to active interactions of Japan and emerging...

This paper develops a new framework and statistical tools to analyze stock returns using high-frequency data. We consider a continuous-time multifactor model via a continuous-time multivariate regression model incorporating realistic empirical features, such as persistent stochastic volatilities...

Raising interest rates and devaluing currencies - traditional measures to stem capital flight and stabilize capital inflows during a financial crisis - were unable to change institutional investors' (self-fulfilling) expectations and herding behavior in four countries studied (Indonesia, the...

The authors investigate how the thinness of foreign-exchange markets causes destabilization speculation, especially when exchange-rate flexibility is increased, as it has been in the countries involved in the Asian crisis. They analyze the impact of this market thinness on the dynamic capital...

This paper develops a new framework and statistical tools to analyze stock returns using high-frequency data. We consider a continuous-time multifactor model via a continuous-time multivariate regression model incorporating realistic empirical features, such as persistent stochastic volatilities...

We propose an asset pricing model in a production economy where cash flows are determined by firms' optimal dividend and investment decisions. Extensive and intensive decision margins in dividend payout are modeled with cash holding and investment adjustment costs. The model implies that delays...

Affine term structure models (ATSMs) are known to have a trade-off in predicting future Treasury yields and fitting the time-varying volatility of interest rates. First, I empirically study the role of macroeconomic variables in simultaneously achieving these two goals under affine models. To...

This dissertation examines the relative importance of the information effect oncorporate takeover in total takeover gains. It develops the measure of information effectbased on the residual income valuation model with I/B/E/S analysts' abnormal earningsforecast revisions. Empirical results show...