Potential gains from international diversification depend upon the degree of market integration. This paper compares the degree of market integration before and after the stock crash in October 1987 and tests whether the results differ across different investment horizons. Empirical results show...

This study comparatively examines the dividends behavior in state-controlled firms versus family-controlled firms. With the sample of large industrial firms listed on the Main Board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange, we investigate the dividends payment rates, stability of dividends payment, the...

The intertemporal stability of the covariance matrix of stock returns is important in using ex-post factor structures on the APT and in portfolio optimization, while that of the correlation matrix is important in examining the ex-ante diversification benefits and stock return co-movements. By...

The Tracker Fund of Hong Kong, the first launched exchange-traded fund in Asia except Japan, aims to track the performance of the Hang Seng Index. This article examines the fund's characteristic via investigating the intraday and intraweek patterns of the fund's premiums. Empirical results...

This article examines the risk-return relations conditional on up and down market periods in the Korean and Taiwan stock markets. Based on statistical tests adjusted for the effects of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation of the residuals, beta is found positively (negatively) related to...

This study revisits the risk-return relationships in the Hong Kong stock market using a conditional model based on up and down markets. Beta is found significantly and positively (negatively) related to realized returns when the market excess returns are positive (negative). The same results are...

This article empirically examines the usefulness of beta, firm size, book-to-market equity ratio (B/M) and earnings-to-price ratio (E/P), as risk proxies in explaining the cross-sectional returns in the Singapore stock market under both unconditional and conditional frameworks based on up and...