In this study, the impact of volatility regime shifts on volatility persistence and hedge ratio estimation is determined for four major currencies using an iterated cumulative sums of squares (ICSS)-GARCH model. Employing a standard GARCH (1,1) model as the benchmark, within-sample results...

This research employs VAR models, impulse response function, forecast error variance decomposition and bivariate GJR GARCH models, to explore the dynamic relationship between foreign investment and the MSCI Taiwan Index (MSCI–TWI). The estimations of the VAR, impulse-response functions and...

This paper examines whether overconfidence can explain the relationship between performance and behavior of investors in Taiwan. Different from prior research that used a specific sample of individuals trading records, this work focuses on aggregate investor behavior to know whether...

How are the risks and returns of industrial and market portfolios altered as a result of terrorist events? This paper investigates the effects of five international terrorist attacks on equities listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange. It uses an event study methodology to explore the...

The purpose of this paper is to employ the Meta-Frontier Cost Function to compare the efficiencies of banks in China and Taiwan over the period 2003–2009. Different from previous literature using loans and securities as the output variables in evaluating banking efficiency, we propose two new...

Building upon two competing hypotheses, the 'efficient investment' hypothesis and the 'internal capital markets' hypothesis, we set out in this study to examine the role of organizational form, in terms of 'focus' versus 'diversification', in explaining the long-run stock and operating...

This study adopts the methodology introduced by Lee (2006) to analyze stock prices in response to information shocks in six of Taiwan's stock market sectors and present market anomalies utilizing behavioral finance theory. Using the Residual Income Model (RIM) of equity valuation, we specified...

This paper investigates the performance, fund characteristics, fund flow of green fund and the impact of subprime mortgage crisis on fund flow volatility. In terms of fund performance, our results show that there is no consistently significant difference between performance of green funds and...

This paper examines the impact of outside block-holders on earnings management, using discretionary accounting accruals as the measure of earnings management. For the income-decreasing earnings management scenario, we do not find significant results. This may be attributable to the different...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between volatility of and liquidity provision through the aggregation of high-frequency data on the stock index option markets of Taiwan. Strong evidence shows the different behaviors of liquidity supply for market makers and nonmarket makers. In...