All conceivable solutions to the internal rate of return equation are shown to have meaning as well as use. Internal rates of return are the units in which value is measured and the quantities of such units. This result implies a single internal rate of return cannot be an investment criterion....

This paper attempts to borrow the tradition of estimating policy reaction functions in monetary policy literature and apply it to capital controls policy literature. Using a novel weekly dataset on capital controls policy actions in 21 emerging economies over the period 1 January 2001 to 31...

In this paper I examine whether one can use analyst forecasts of macroeconomic variables to improve investors ex-ante allocation of wealth between stocks and bonds. Such forecasts provide a forward-looking approach which I find improves investor's information set for the myopic stock-bond...

This paper shows that the cross-sectional and time series momentum in currencies, which cannot be explained by carry and dollar factors, summarize the autocorrelation of these factors. These momentum strategies long currency factors following positive factor returns and short them following...

This paper shows that currency momentum, which cannot be explained by carry and dollar factors, summarizes the autocorrelation of these factors. Carry and dollar factors are strongly autocorrelated and only earn significantly positive excess returns following positive factor returns. Currency...

This paper attempts to borrow the tradition of estimating policy reaction functions in monetary policy literature and apply it to capital controls policy literature. Using a novel weekly dataset on capital controls policy actions in 21 emerging economies over the period 1 January 2001 to 31...

This paper attempts to bring the tradition of estimating policy reaction functions from monetary policy literature to capital controls policy literature. Using a novel, weekly dataset on capital controls policy actions in 21 emerging economies over the period 1 January 2001 – 31 December 2015,...

In this new era of economic growth, the exceptional increase in the crude oil prices is one of the significant developments that affecting the global economy. Crude oil is an important raw material used for manufacturing many goods, so that an extraordinary increase in the price of oil is bound...

This study compares the performance of the widely used risk measure Value-at-Risk (VaR) across a large sample of developed and emerging countries. The performance of the VaR is assessed by both unconditional and conditional tests of Kupiec and Christoffersen, respectively, as well as the...

The global financial crisis, after brewing for a while, actually started to demonstrate its consequences and encroachments in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. During this period the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have been collapsed. From 2008 to 2010 it reflected...