This article uses the ACE algorithm to non-linearly transform stock prices and dividends for the USA for the period 1871-1999. It finds strong evidence of cointegration between the transformed variables, which can be characterized as non-linear cointegration. It concludes that departures from...

This note provides evidence that there exist long-run benefits for a Canadian investor from diversifying in the equity markets of the US, Japan, and the six largest European markets namely those of the UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands. This evidence is based on tests...

The Brock, Dechert and Scheinkman (1987) method is used to test for nonlinear dependence in daily rates of change of the exchange rate of the British pound relative to seven most heavily traded currencies against the pound during the period 2 January 1993 to 7 October 1996. The currencies are...

This paper explores the extent to which accounting for structural breaks in ERM exchange rates affects inferences on the presence of a unit root in these exchange rates. Four ERM exchange rates, found by previous empirical studies to be nonstationary, are examined. In contrast to previous...

The paper extends Lo and MacKinlay's 1990 findings by testing for mean and variance spillovers among size-sorted portfolios for the UK stock market. The London Business School Share Price Database, which contains the returns of approximately 6000 companies, is used to construct two sets of...

This note provides evidence that there were long long-run benefits for a UK investor from diversifying in the equity markets of the US during the pre-October 1987 crash period. For the post-crash period, these benefits are reduced. These results are based on two distinct cointegration tests, and...