In contrast to conventional setup, a type 2 Tobit model is proposed to characterize the dividend behaviour. In the model, the selection regression determines whether a company would pay dividends whereas the output regression decides how much dividend a company will pay given that the company...

In this study, we introduce an asymmetric Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (GARCH) model, Glosten, Jagannathan and Runkle-GARCH (GJR-GARCH), in Value-at-Risk (VaR) to examine whether or not GJR-GARCH is a good method to evaluate the market risk of financial holdings....

A novel test for CAPM is presented. In contrast to the traditional models, allowance is made for the possibility that the risk measure, β, to be drawn from two different regimes, e.g. high-risk state and low-risk state. Estimation method is given, empirical results are investigated and...