This paper uses the Case-Shiller U.S. house price indices to analyze spatial dependencies across 16 metropolitan markets for the period January 1989 to June 2006. Return transmission patterns establish New York, San Francisco, and Miami to be among the most influential markets. In terms of...

The study analyzes the influence of macroeconomic news announcements on (a) interest rates for commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, 10-year Treasury notes, and Baa-rated corporate bonds; and (b) corresponding mortgage spreads. It is both interesting and highly relevant from a policy and...

This paper posits that the failure of past studies to document a positive relationship between REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) returns and inflation is an artifact of the empirical framework that has predominated in these studies. Applying a pooled estimation methodology to an expansive data...

Many empirical studies have been undertaken to determine the validity of the uncovered interest rate parity hypothesis--the hypothesis that would lead one to expect a correlation between the forward discount and spot rate movements. The consensus of these studies has been that the forward...

Jensen, Johnson, and Mercer (1997) demonstrate that ME and BE/ME do not significantly explain the cross-section of stock returns during periods of contractionary monetary policy. In this study we use a dataset of stocks screened in the manner of a Fama and French 1992. We use a simple AR(1)...

Intraday currency futures prices react to both surprises in the federal funds target rate (the target factor) and surprises in the anticipated future direction of Federal Reserve monetary policy (the path factor) by a similar magnitude, and the reaction is short-lived. Dollar-denominated...

Intraday currency futures prices react to both surprises in the federal funds target rate (the target factor) and surprises in the anticipated future direction of Federal Reserve monetary policy (the path factor) in similar magnitude, and the reaction is short-lived. Dollar-denominated currency...

There is a large stream of literature that documents one-month return reversal patterns for individual stocks. Some studies term this reversal pattern overreaction, while others simply skip one-month returns in order to examine longer term momentum patterns in stocks. At the same time, the...

We evaluate the investment benefits of dividend-paying stocks and make three major findings. First, high-dividend stocks have the least risk, yet return over 1.5% more per year than non-dividend payers. Second, the benefit of targeting dividend payers is conditional on investment style....

Asness et al. (2018) demonstrate the reemergence of the size premium (SMB) once one controls for firm quality within time series regressions. We demonstrate that the size premium disappears during periods of monetary tightening and is present during periods of monetary expansion; whether or not...