In the context of a three-moment Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model specification, we characterize conditional co-skewness between stock and bond excess returns using a bivariate regime-switching model. We find that both conditional U.S. stock co-skewness (the relation between stock...

This study investigates financial contagion among seven international stock markets around the October 19, 1987 crash. Building on a recent advance in vector autoregression analysis by Swanson and Granger (1997), data-determined historical decompositions are conducted to provide a day-by-day...

Using monthly stock and bond return data in the past 150 years (1855-2001) for both the U.S. and the U.K., this study documents time-varying stock-bond correlation over macroeconomic conditions (the business cycle, the inflation environment and monetary policy stance). There are different...

This paper examines effects of monetary policy surprises on returns, volatilities, trading volumes, and bid-ask spread of two equity ETFs, the Samp;P 500 SPY fund and the Samp;P 400 MDY fund. The policy surprises are measured by both surprises in the federal funds rate target changes and...

This paper examines pairwise intercity price-volume dynamics in China using novel daily transaction prices and volume dataset from 32 Chinese cities. Despite geographical disparity and time variations, the volume-volume dynamic relationship plays a noticeably more significant role than...

This study investigates the impact of currency convertibility under the current account on the informational linkage between official and swap market exchange rates for Chinese currency (renminbi). Findings indicate that currency convertibility increased the informational connection between the...

Using credit default swap data, we propose a novel empirical framework to identify the structure of credit risk networks across international major financial institutions around the recent global credit crisis. Specifically, we identify three groups of players including prime senders, exchange...