This study examines the impacts of interest rate on banks' return in 14 international markets. This research covers seven financial ratios as dependent variables as well as the return of the bank. Moreover, size of the banks is a control variable. The sample of data is from 2001 until the end of...

This study employs the recently developed Lagrange multiplier-based causality-in-variance test by Hafner and Herwartz (2006), to determine the volatility spillovers between interest rates and stock returns for the US, the euro area, the UK, and Japan. The investigation pays careful attention to...

"This paper examines the association between inflation, monetary policy and U.S. stock market conditions during the second half of the 20th century. We estimate a latent variable VAR to examine how macroeconomic and policy shocks affect the condition of the stock market. Further, we examine the...