The present study investigates possible existence of time varying risk premia in Brazilian real, Chinese yuan; Cypriot pound, Danish krone, Eurozone euro, French franc, Indian rupee, Japanese yen, Pakistani rupee, and British pound forward foreign exchange rates against US dollar. Exchange rates...

This research explores the risk associated with the stocks prices in the seventeen selected companies that are listed in Indian BSE (100) National as well as portfolios of investment that are constructed from these seventeen companies employed. Additionally, for considering the possibility of...

We investigate the possible predictability of firm growth in Taiwan using cross-sectional data of financial factors for the years 1997 and 2003 via principal component analysis. Our results reveal that the 18 financial variables (sales growth rate, total assets, total sales, return on assets,...

In this research, monthly forward exchange rates are evaluated for possible existence of time varying risk premia in Singapore forward foreign exchange rates against US dollar. The time varying risk premia in Singapore dollar is modeled using non-Gaussian signal plus noise models that encompass...

We investigate whether the emergence of high inflation rates after 1965 and large budget deficits after 1980s caused the financial market agents to become more sensitive to the outlooks for inflation and budget deficits. Our approach is parametric and our models fully account for possible...

We employ artificial neural networks using macro-financial variables to predict recessions. We model the relationship between indicator variables and recessions to periods into the future and employ a procedure that penalizes a misclassified recession more than a misclassified non-recession. Our...