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In this short paper we summarize and elaborate on a few well-known misconceptions that often occur when people conduct statistical hypothesis testing. For example, when the truthfulness of the null hypothesis is a random event and the formal hypothesis testing procedure cannot reject the null,...

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This paper examines the short-run and long-run neutrality of money using methodology suggested by King and Watson (1997) on quarterly data from South Korea and Taiwan (King and Watson (1997), Testing Long-Run Neutrality, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 83(3), 69-103). A body...

Can extending social welfare expenditures promote economic growth? This issue has been discussed extensively, with some research pointing to net benefits while others find a net negative impact. Insight can be gained by careful analysis of several sub-questions. For example, for two countries...

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I first introduce the early-stage and modern classical asset pricing and portfolio theories. These include: the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), the arbitrage pricing theory (APT), the consumption capital asset pricing model (CCAPM), the intertemporal capital asset pricing model (ICAPM), and...

The aim of this paper is to re-examine the sequential-financing hypothesis in the context of convertible bond issuances from firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange from 1994 to 2003. The results contend that announcements of convertible debt offerings are, on average, associated with...