This paper investigates the fractional dynamics of the foreign exchange forward premium during the floating period of the 1920s. We apply weekly exchange rates of the currencies from Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Italy and the USA against the British pound from February 1921 to May 1925 and...

This paper investigates the long run relationship between nominal interest rate and the inflation rate (Fisher effect) in the USA during the gold standard era (1879-1913). Using Johansen cointegration tests, results show that there exists a Fisher effect on both the nominal short- and long-term...

This paper investigates the relationship between stock returns and inflation using monthly data from ten Brazilian firms and the general Brazilian stock market. The period under investigation, 1986-2008, includes periods of unstable high inflation (1986-1994) and stable low inflation...

This paper investigates empirically the effects of real interest rate volatility on demand for total housing and new housing in the USA. The investigation looks at monthly data from 1975 to 2006 using the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to co-integration and the Hendry...

This paper investigates the effect of good or bad news (the asymmetric effect) on the time-varying beta of firms in the UK during good periods (booms) and bad periods (recessions). Daily data from twenty five UK firms of different sizes and from different industries are applied in the empirical...

This study constructs a flexible range-based volatility model by considering extreme-value information to explore the volatility and dependence structures between the oil price and the US dollar exchange rate. An asset-allocation strategy is implemented to evaluate the economic value and confirm...

This paper empirically investigates the asymmetric effect of news on the time-varying beta of selected banks from seven European countries during the current crisis period and also during the pre-crisis period. The paper applies daily data from thirteen large banks from France, Germany, Greece,...

This paper empirically investigates return, volatility and leverage spillover effects between banking industrial stock markets of the major economies (ME) (Germany, UK and US) and the smaller stressed European Union countries (SE), (Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal) from 2002 to 2014...

This paper investigates the time‐varying, long‐run and short‐run dynamic relationships between stock industrial sectors of the US and three leading emerging markets/countries: Brazil, Malaysia, and South Africa between January 2000 and December 2009. A crucial empirical contribution of the...