Price indices for heterogenous goods such as real estate or fine art constitute crucial information for institutional or private investors considering alternative investments in times of financial markets turmoil. Classical mean-variance analysis of alternative investments has been hampered by...

This paper proposes a novel approach to uncover the linkages of the housing market and macroeconomy for fifteen OECD countries. One of the limitations of conventional approach is that it does not distinguish the time domain from the frequency domain. However, econometric and economic rationale...

This research sheds light on the causal link between commodity price indexes, i.e., the Agricultural Raw Materials Price Index, Industry Input Price Index, Metal Price Index, and Energy Price Index, in the global market, using wavelet coherence, Toda-Yamamoto causality, and gradual shift...