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...

We investigate the association between the stock return distributions of 10 major U.S. sectors and oil returns within a double-threshold FIGARCH model. This model nests GARCH, IGARCH and Fama-French specifications as its special cases and allows a test of their validity. This model also has the...

This study attempts to determine whether the level and volatility of interest rates affect the equity returns of commercial banks. Short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term interest rates are used. Volatility is defined as the conditional variance of respective interest rates and is generated...