We revisit the question whether commodities should be included in investors' portfolios. We employ for the first time a stochastic dominance efficiency (SDE) approach to construct optimal portfolios with and without commodities and we evaluate their comparative performance. SDE circumvents the...

Marketing mix modeling has existed for decades now. Everyone has been using it, some tapped its potential with enormous success while others are yet to see its true potential. Rapidly changing marketing environment, consumer dynamics and multi touch points have made it even more complex to get...

Expectile regression produces the best linear unbiased estimator for regression lines other than the mean regression in model designs with asymmetric conditional variance of the error term. In some cases where OLS assumptions are violated, an expectile regression estimator is also the BLUE for...

The logit-weighted reduced mixture of experts model (LRMoE) is a flexible yet analytically tractable non-linear regression model. While it has shown usefulness in modeling insurance loss frequencies and severities, model calibration becomes challenging when censored and truncated data are...

The study investigates the factors that influence dividend payout policy in public Pakistani manu- facturing companies throughout the timeframe 2010-20. Pooled OLS technique was used for regression purposes, as the majority of companies do not pay a dividend at all or do not do so regularly so...

The study investigates the factors that influence dividend payout policy in public manufacturing Pakistani companies throughout the timeframe 2010-20. Pooled OLS technique was used for regression purpose, as the majority of companies does not pay a dividend at all or regularly so all these firms...

Purpose – In a meta-study, we have bridged the gap between the pros and cons of a questionable finance-growth nexus.Design/methodology/approach – Over 20 fundamental characteristics that have influenced the debate over the last decades have been examined. The empirical evidence is based on...

We document pervasive informed trading activity in equity options before M&A announcements. About 25% of takeovers have positive abnormal volumes. These volume patterns indicate that informed traders are likely using bullish directional strategies for the target and volatility strategies for the...

In today’s technology-driven world-economy, banking-services have been modernized where customers compete for comparative time-saving-options. Bangladesh, a developing country, is no exception. Besides traditional banking, Agent-banking, bKash, Western-Union etc. serve new-way...

This study proposes a novel nonparametric estimation approach to solving asset-pricing models. Our method is robust to misspecification errors and it inherits a closed-form solution that facilitates ease of implementation. By transforming the Euler equation, our estimate is fully identified, and...