We demonstrate, using Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA), that some of the firm-specific determinants of the capital structure of Chinese firms reported as important in previous studies may be fragile, in the sense that the sign and/or significance of the coefficients on these variables change...

An attempt is made to verify the exchange rate regime that China has been following since 21 July 2005 when a policy shift was implemented, presumably taking China from a dollar peg to a basket peg. The results show that while a regime of simple and strict dollar peg has indeed been abandoned,...

We examine the performance of the buy-write option strategy (BWS) on the Australian Stock Exchange and analyse whether such an investment opportunity violates the efficient market hypothesis on the basis of its risk and returns. This study investigates the relationship between buy-write...