This paper investigates the effect of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 on the long-run relationship(s) between the stock prices of Far East countries. Further tests are conducted to check the change in the dominance of the Japanese and the US stock markets in the Far East Region. Empirical...

The tragic events of September 11, 2001 in the United States is said to have adversely affected the global economy and the financial markets around the world. This paper empirically investigates the effects of the terrorist attacks and the period after on the time-varying beta (risk) of a few...

This paper investigates the hedging effectiveness of Australian, Hong Kong and Japanese stock futures markets. For each market two sets of futures indices are used in the empirical tests. Effectiveness of four different hedging ratios depending on different estimation procedures are...

This paper investigates the hedging effectiveness of Australian, Hong Kong and Japanese stock futures markets. For each market two sets of futures indices are used in the empirical tests. Effectiveness of four different hedging ratios depending on different estimation procedures are...

This book gathers the proceedings of the ICAFFI International Conference on Accounting, Finance and Financial Institutions. The main topics addressed include: corporate finance, financial markets and asset pricing, empirical finance, taxation, financial risk management, international finance,...

While recent studies have concentrated on why value outperforms growth, this paper verifies whether over performance level has changed over the recent period within the euro-zone, and whether these strategies are sensitive to earnings growth level, country or industry factors. Results show that...

This paper examines the pattern of interaction among Asian exchange rates, and how the pattern changed before and during/after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. The empirical tests are conducted using daily nominal exchanges rates based on the US dollar and the Japanese yen from several Far...