This paper investigates on what drives the different determinants of systemic risk contribution in different countries, based on a dataset for commercial banks in a bank-based system (the BRICs and Japan) and a market-based system (the US). In both separate and pooled systems, the determinants...

In this study, we estimate the multi-period Value at Risk (VaR) of oil future prices under a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity with a skewed-t residuals (GARCH-ST) model, which is developed to account for the stylized facts of oil futures returns, such as serial...

This paper revisits the asymmetric price transmission in the U.S. oil-gasoline markets by a multiple threshold error-correction model. Unlike the previous studies, the regimes and thresholds are endogenously determined by sequential model selection. A nonlinear asymmetric pattern is discovered...

In this paper, we use the skewed t copula with a DCC (Dynamic Conditional Correlation) model to capture the time-varying asymmetric tail dependence among MSCI US, Europe and Emerging markets. The empirical results show that it is important to take account of asymmetric tail dependence when...

This paper investigates the different effects of political connections on the firm performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately owned enterprises. Using data on Chinese listed firms from 1999 to 2007, we find that private firms with politically connected managers outperform those...

In this paper we consider the optimal insurance problem when the insurer has a loss limit constraint. Under the assumptions that the insurance price depends only on the policy's actuarial value, and the insured seeks to maximize the expected utility of his terminal wealth, we show that coverage...

In this paper, we impose the insurer's Value at Risk (VaR) constraint on Arrow's optimal insurance model. The insured aims to maximize his expected utility of terminal wealth, under the constraint that the insurer wishes to control the VaR of his terminal wealth to be maintained below a...

In this article, we take the funding liquidity risk into account when determining the optimal liquidity reserve ratio for a commercial bank. A simple continuous-time model is developed, and a discrete-time model is built as a benchmark. We find that compared with the continuous-time model, the...

This paper investigates the comovement and tail dependence between Chinese Yuan and New Taiwan Dollar non-delivery forward (NDF) rates against the U.S. dollar. We adopt the copula modeling approach to capture dynamics of correlation and tail dependence between two NDF rates. It is shown that the...