This study revisits the causal linkages between military spending and economic growth in China and G7 countries (i.e. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the USA) by focusing country-specific analysis for the period 1988-2010. The panel causality analysis, which accounts for both...

This paper focuses on evaluating the credit risk of corporate bond in the fixed income market of Taiwan. We apply Vasicek (1977) model into Merton's (1974) option framework and obtain a closed-form solution of the options model. The solution algorithm employs the Newton-Raphson method in...

We apply a newly developed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ADL) test for threshold cointegration, proposed by Li and Lee (2010) to test the validity of long-run Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) for a sample of BRICS countries (i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) over January 1996 to...

This paper re-investigates whether rational bubbles existed in the G-7 stock markets during the period of January 2000–June 2009 using the newly developed Fourier unit root test and a nonparametric rank test for cointegration. The empirical results from our Fourier unit test indicate that the...

The asymmetric nature of the volatility response to return shocks could simply reflect the existence of time-varying risk premiums. This study proposes a stochastic volatility process allowing for time-varying correlation with underlying returns, in which the market price of volatility risk is...