This paper investigates the housing-macroeconomic nexus in Taiwan with endogenous structural breaks during 1991-2006. GDP and CPI are taken into consideration for examining the inflation hedging ability of Taiwan's housing returns and the contribution of the housing market to economic growth....

This study examines the impact of financial liberalization on the returns and volatility of eleven emerging stock markets. Time points of structural changes in the data are detected first based on the iterated cumulative sums of squares (ICSS) algorithm developed by Incl?n and Tiao (1994). Using...

This study constructs a variety of GARCH models with the consideration of the generalized error distribution to analyze the relationship between the cloud cover and stock returns in Taiwan in the whole sample period (1986 to 2007) and in the two sub-sample periods (1986 to 1996 and 1997 to...