This paper examines the effects of market liberalization on exchange-rate exposure of exporting firms and its possible time-varying nature. Using Taiwanese exporting firms as a test case, particularly, we consider the effects of the timing of the three liberalization events through which the...

In this paper we observe that firm size (SZ) and book-to-market (BM) cannot fully explain stock returns on prior-return- (PR-) based portfolios in the Japanese stock market. The overreaction effect after controlling for the SZ and BM effects is significant and persistent, and accounts for a...

In this paper, we propose a model-selection approach to testing the expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates. Our method is based on the posterior information criterion (PIC) developed and analyzed by Phillips and Ploberger (1994, 1996) and extended to provide order estimation...

Studying the informativeness of institutional trades, this paper examines informational differences among institutional investors in the Taiwan stock market. Evidence shows that the net trades of (domestic) mutual funds impound information superior to the net trades of foreign investors and...

This paper documents prevailing mispricing of research and development (R&D) investments in the Taiwan stock market, a rapidly emerging and electronics-dominated market. Applying stock return data from July 1988 to June 2005, we observe that R&D-intensive stocks tend to outperform stocks with...