This paper proposes a four-regime bivariate Markov regime-switching model to estimate the daily time-varying minimum variance hedge ratios for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, and evaluates its in- and out-of-sample hedging performances with two-regime model, CC-GARCH, TVC-GARCH, and OLS...

In this paper, we investigate the information contents of S&P 500 VIX index and range-based volatilities by comparing their benefits on the GJR-based volatility forecasting performance. To reveal the statistical significance and ensure obtaining robust results, we employ Hansen's SPA test (2005)...

In this paper, we investigate the determinants of daily short selling activity for retail and foreign institutions and their impacts on stock returns, volatility and liquidity in the Taiwan stock markets. By using two metrics to measure the short selling activity for two investor types, we find...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between volatility of and liquidity provision through the aggregation of high-frequency data on the stock index option markets of Taiwan. Strong evidence shows the different behaviors of liquidity supply for market makers and nonmarket makers. In...

The assumption of dynamic lapse behavior is path-dependence related to the performance of underlying assets. This causes the pricing and reserving of investment guarantee products to be more difficult to deal with. The lack of actual experience of such policyholders’ behavior is also an...

In this study, the authors investigate the relationship between price movement and the depth of limit order books, as well as the relationship between order submission/ cancellation and depth for institutional and individual investors, respectively. They find that the relationship between the...