This study aims to examine the impacts of a bond fund segregation policy event on Taiwan mutual fund industry. In principle, mutual fund industry is a highly regulated industry. However, bond funds focus on pursuing short-term high returns and increasing their scale by investing in structured...

A fractal is a geometrical structure that is self-similar when scaled. By assessing the fractal dimension of asset returns, the retail investors with recent innovation in financial prediction and computational power, can exploit these prices. A branch of a tree is often used as an example in...

Stock market return is one of financial variables that contain information to forecast real activity such as industrial production and real GDP growth. However, it is still controversial that stock market return can have a predictive content on real activity. This paper attempts to investigate...

This study re-visits the health-income nexus for Malaysia using alternative econometric techniques which addressed on the small sample problem. This study covers the period of 1970-2009. Based on the appealing small sample properties, we apply the bounds testing approach to cointegration and the...

Inefficient pricing of energy products has become common feature of governments in many oil exporting developing countries. As developing countries, this can be justified only when the increased growth results from such higher energy consumption. To this end, the study examined the direction of...

The relationship between financial development and economic growth has attracted a great deal of attention among economists and policy makers alike. The economy of Qatar did not receive much attention in the empirical literature. This study attempts at filling this gap in economic literature,...

This study re-visits the health-income nexus for Malaysia using alternative econometric techniques which addressed on the small sample problem. This study covers the period of 1970-2009. Based on the appealing small sample properties, we apply the bounds testing approach to cointegration and the...