This study examined the long run relationship between the personal savings rate and the index of consumer sentiment in the United States over the 1959-1997 period using cointegration analysis. We find that consumer sentiment and the personal savings rate share a long run equilibrium. The results...

We find evidence that the runs on banks and trust companies in the Panic of 1907 were linked to the Bank of England's contractionary monetary policy actions taken in 1906 and 1907 through the medium of copper prices. Results from our VAR models and copper stockpile data support our argument that...

This paper uses the momentum threshold autoregressive (MTAR) model and the residuals-augmented Dickey-Fuller (RADF) test to examine the possibility of Evans' (1991) periodically collapsing bubbles in the equity REIT market. The results are mixed. The MTAR model indicates that overall real equity...

We examine the relation among the prime lending rate, certificate of deposit rate, and the Samp;P Financial Stock Index using cointegration and error correction modeling techniques. We find that these three financial time series share a long-run cointegrating relation. Subsequent vector...

The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the assumptions underlying the total offset method advanced in the 1967 Alaska Rule and relied upon by some practitioners in the calculation of economic damages in personal injury and wrongful death litigation. The structure of this paper serves as a...

This study performs tests of the random walk hypothesis for international commercial real estate markets utilizing stock market indices of real estate share prices for three geographical regions: Europe, Asia and North America. The augmented Dickey-Fuller and Phillips-Perron unit root tests and...

The Prebisch-Singer (PS) hypothesis [Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems, United Nations Publications: New York, NY, (1950); The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries, American Economic Review , 40 (1950) 473-485] implies that there should...

This empirical study extends the work of Coakley et al. (Manchester School, Vol. 72 (2004), pp. 569-590) with respect to the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for a sample of 47 developing countries. The study examines the savings-investment relationship through a comparison of the Feldstein-Horioka...

The U.S. bank stress tests were introduced to improve the risk posture and management practices of large and complex banking institutions. This study investigates whether stress-tested banks in the U.S. converge to each other in their levels and determinants of profitability, as well as...

This study examines the impact of credit rating upgrades and downgrades on six comprehensive banks' asset classes, profitability, leverage and size using data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's call reports and Bloomberg over the period 1989-2008. In summary, the results suggest...