Two alternative approaches of efficiency measurement, nonparametric and statistical, are employed to calculate three types of efficiency indexes for the U.S. beer industry over the period 1950-1986. The results indicate that the beer industry was operating at a high level of pure technical...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between investor sentiment and leading equity market indices from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and globally between January 2020 and June 2022. The methodological approaches utilized are quantile regression and wavelet analysis. The results...

This paper examines two relationships using the bivariate GARCH methodology. First, the relationship between equity returns of commercial banks, Savings and Loans (S&Ls) and life insurance companies (LICs), and those of the real-estate investment trusts (REITs), a proxy for the real-estate...

This paper examines two stylized regularities in currency futures traded on the International Monetary Market. Short horizon returns (weekly and monthly) sampled over the period 1984-1994 exhibit significantly positive autocorrelations at moderate lags. The pattern of autocorrelations in returns...