Futures market efficiency has been one of the most researched topics for a number of years.The huge amount of results produced, highly dependent on the econometric techniquesadopted and on the time period analysed, are often conflicting: for a given market, someauthors find evidence of...

The aim of this paper is to compare the forecasting performance of SETAR and GARCHmodels against a linear benchmark using historical data for two bilateral dollarexchange rates, namely the Japanese Yen and the British Pound. The analysis is carried out with series sampled at weekly and daily...