With a view to investigating whether the purchasing power parity (PPP) theory holds true for selected African countries during the January 1980-December 2003 period, we employ a rigorous, highly dynamic non-linear (logistic) unit root test, as first advanced by Leybourne et al. (1998), which is...

We investigated changes in the financial performance of representatives of the world’s top 200 commercial banks after the global subprime financial crisis. Our empirical results show that following the subprime-crisis disclosure, all commercial banks exhibited worse performance in asset...

This article examines long-run dynamic adjustments of the term structure of interest rates using Taiwan government bond interest with different maturities. This permits threshold and momentum-threshold adjustments to test for asymmetry in unit roots and cointegration. More specifically, we...

In this study, we use the newly developed momentum threshold unit root and cointegration tests advanced by Enders and Granger (1998), and Enders and Siklos (2001) to investigate if there is any asymmetric adjustment in long-run prices and dividends in Taiwan¡¦s stock market during June...

Purpose Recent studies in the accounting literature have investigated the economic consequences of R&D capitalization. Discretionary R&D capitalization for target beating can be characterized as a firm signaling private information on its future economic benefits or as opportunistic earnings...