This article examines the Credit Default Swap (CDS) spread index for three sectors, banking, financial services and insurance, in the short and long run. In the long run, the results show that the index of the insurance sector which sells the long term CDS contracts has the highest adjustment,...

This paper examines the relationship between beta risk and realized stockindex return in the presence of oil and exchange rate sensitivities for fifteen countriesin the Asia-Pacific region using the international factor model. Thirteen of the 15countries have the expected beta signs and show...

This paper examines the impacts of world, country, and sector-specific variables on the stock return volatility of twenty-seven US sectors in the short- and long-run, accounting for the asymmetric shocks based on GARCH models. In the standard GARCH model the two world variables, oil and Morgan...