This paper investigates the impact of consumer sentiment on firms' debt policy decisions and identifies the channels through which consumer sentiment impacts the corporate debt policy of U.S. firms at the sectoral level. Using the panel frameworks, the overall findings suggest a clear link...

This paper investigates the impact of consumer sentiment on firms' debt policy decisions and identifies the channels through which consumer sentiment impacts the corporate debt policy of U.S. firms at the sectoral level. Using the panel frameworks, the overall findings suggest a clear link...

This paper focuses on three important calendar events namely day of the week, turn of the month and January effect. Using both a GARCH (1 1)-M model and a mixture of distribution hypothesis (MDH) this paper investigates the return and conditional volatility pattern of the Malaysian stock index...

This paper examines the impact of monetary policy and a range of sector-specific and macroeconomic shocks on the Australian housing market using quarterly data for a period of 1974-2008. The paper develops a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model based on contemporaneous restrictions to...