This study examines the international information transmission among three major gold futures markets namely COMEX, MCX, and TOCOM. Two well documented approaches, which are VECM and information share, are utilized to measure the process of price discovery under this trivariate system. The...

In this paper, we provide the first evidence of liquidity timing ability of mutual funds outside US. We propose a new model to study liquidity timing ability of mutual funds. The model matches the higher moment framework required for emerging market study. We find that on the average the mutual...

A non-normal stock return distribution is common in emerging markets. We propose a new liquidity timing model in a higher moment. Overall, fund managers are able to time the market-wide liquidity even in a higher moment environment. A co-skewness risk factor is statistically priced. High...

This paper investigates the impact of Asian banks' income structure on competitiveness, profitability, and risk over the period 2005–2011. Exchange-listed commercial banks of eight Asian countries are included in the study sample. The cross-sectional regression results reveal that higher...