Cyclical asymmetry has been recognised as a nonlinear phenomenonin recent studies examining unemployment rate time series. In this paper we use a number of established and new tests for identifying nonlinearities of the bilinear (BL), exponential autoregressive (EXPAR), smooth transition...

In May of 1994 (and on two subsequent dates), the Sydney Futures Exchange introduced futures contracts on slected issues of common stock. These new contracts, known as individual share futures (ISF's), represent a unique type of derivative product. This paper examines the impact of the...

The majority of classification models developed have used a pool of financial ratios combined with statistical variable selection techniques to maximise the accuracy of the classifier being employed. Rather than follow an "ad hoc" variable selection process, this paper seeks to provide an...

In this paper we have tested for evidence of nonlinear structure in Australian asset returns including those of real estate and investment trusts, stock market indicies and returns for listed real estate companies. While some of our test procedures are designed to test for nonlinear...

Cyclical asymmetry has been recognised as a nonlinear phenomenon in numerous recent studies examining various economic and financial time series. If the nonlinear phenomena can be modelled by a nonlinear stochastic structure like the bilinear (BL), exponential autoregressive (EAR), smooth...

In this paper we have tested for evidence of nonlinear structure in United Kingdom asset returns including those of real estate and investment trusts, stock market indices and returns for listed real estate companies. While some of our test procedures are designed to test for nonlinear...

Asymmetry in the business cycle has been recognised as a nonlinear phenomenon by a number of recent studies which have examined unemployment rate series in North America, Europe and Australia. While many of these studies hypothesise that linear modelling techniques are inadequate for modelling...

In order to explain the incidence of Granger causality between indices from the futures and the underlying cash market, as reported by numerous empirical studies in the literature, it is important to account for mean and volatility (second-order) persistence effects in the data. Further, there...