Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on how 1999–2001 dot-com crisis and 2007–2009 subprime crisis affect the gains from international diversification from the perspective of US investors. Design/methodology/approach: A conditional international CAPM with...

Purpose: It has been increasingly recognized that exchange rate changes affect the cash flow and the value of firms. Existing studies on exchange rate exposure do not have much success in finding significant exposure, and the failure to find this relationship empirically has been termed...

This paper tests whether there are pure contagion effects in both conditional means and volatilities among British pound, Canadian dollar, Deutsche mark, and Swiss franc futures markets during the 1992 ERM crisis. A conditional version of international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM) in the...

This paper investigates whether the existence of pricing anomalies represents compensation for bearing extra-market risks by directly testing a version of Merton's (1973) Intertemporal CAPM (ICAPM), allowing for both time-varying first and second moments of asset returns. The conditional ICAPM...

This paper tests whether bank can be a source of contagion during the 1997 Asian crisis using asset return data from a crisis country - Thailand. In particular, I examine whether Thai banking sector can produce contagion effects in both conditional means and volatilities of its foreign exchange...

This paper studies time-varying price of risk and volatility in Asia-Pacific forward exchange markets in an attempt to see whether currency risk can be a potential source of risk premium to explain forward premium puzzle. To derive a measure of the risk premium, a conditional version of...

This paper examines the role of market, interest rate, and exchange rate risks in pricing a sample of the U.S. commercial bank stocks by developing and estimating a multi-factor model under both unconditional and conditional frameworks. Three different econometric methodologies are used to...

One of the puzzles in international finance literature is the deviations from Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP). In this paper, I further examine the validity of the risk premia hypothesis in explaining this puzzle by testing a conditional international CAPM (ICAPM) in the absence of Purchasing...

This paper examines whether Asian emerging stock markets (India, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand) have become integrated into world capital markets since their official liberalization dates by estimating and testing a dynamic integrated international capital asset pricing...