Housing prices, like the prices of other speculative assets, contain a mix of both small and large changes (i.e., jumps). We apply a jump-GARCH model to monthly Case-Shiller housing price indexes of twenty cities in the U.S. during the period January 1991 through December 2011. We document the...

We examine the price discovery performance of China’s crude oil futures traded on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) for the spot prices of 19 types of deliverable and non-deliverable Asian crude oil. We find evidence for the INE crude oil futures price discovery function even at...

Housing prices, like the prices of other speculative assets, contain a mix of both small and large changes (i.e., jumps). We apply a jump-GARCH model to monthly Case-Shiller housing price indexes of twenty cities in the U.S. during the period January 1991 through December 2011. We document the...