Currency adjusted stock indices consider the impact of both stock value changes and underlying currency value changes on total wealth changes. This paper explores causality and cointegration of currency-adjusted indices using intraday data. This paper examines tick-by-tick data for seven...

The intention of this study was to document how closely households follow normative descriptions of financial behavior in relation to their financial planning horizon. Modern Portfolio Theory predicts that households, in general, exhibit risk aversion. Aversion to wealth volatility should...

This paper estimates ex-post returns to Australian housing in Australian capital cities 1999 2015 considering the cycle of asset ownership; acquisition, annual operations, taxation and disposition. Modelling accommodates financial leverage and varying taxation regimes. Results confirm home...

Despite various efforts to address the mortgage arrears crisis, arrears remain at an elevated level. Designing policies to deal with such high levels of distress requires a deep understanding of the precise sources of the problem. Efforts to date, however, have been hampered by a lack of...

This paper analyzes the impact of China's multi-level or cross-market volatility during the COVID-19 epidemic period. We use two key time points to analyze based on the event study method. Empirical findings indicate that the COVID-19 epidemic, as a signal, has a longer negative impact than a...

Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. Increased firm-level uncertainty reduces total...

We measure bond and stock conditional return volatility as a function of changes in sentiment, proxied by six indicators from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. We find that changes in sentiment affect conditional volatilities at different magnitudes and often in an opposite manner in the two markets,...

Many studies have investigated the correlation between climate change and economic growth. However, this study focuses on household saving, whereby growth may be correlated with climate volatility. This study conducts a dynamic panel analysis using data on Chinese provinces for the period of...

Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by seasonality, economic instability, and illiquidity across months. To capture within-year variability, we extend traditional poverty measures to include a temporal dimension....