The existence of good schools is expected to increase nearby housing prices. We use a natural experiment from two cities in Korea where the high school entrance system changed from self-selection to geographical assignment. Our empirical results show that the existence of good high schools did...

We show that historical volatility from high frequency returns outperforms implied volatility when standardized returns by historical volatility tends to be normally distributed. For the FTSE 100 futures, we find that historical volatility using high frequency returns outperforms implied...

We apply the idea of using reversed time series to improve the power of Johansen tests. We suggest computationally simple variants of the trace and maximum eigenvalue statistics and establish their limit distributions. Both are shown, via simulation, to yield nontrivial power gains.