This article examines the relationship among intradaily information flows, volatility and volume based on the Mixture of Distribution Hypothesis (MDH). We generalize the MDH model to accommodate both informed and uninformed trading effects on return volatility. Using a Fourier filtering...

Term structure models have often been criticized for failing to explain satisfactorily the yield spread between corporate and Treasury bonds. A potential problem is that the personal tax effect is ignored in these models. In this paper, we employ a structural model to investigate the role of...