The international transmission of intraday price volatility among the United States, United Kingdom, and Japanese stock index futures markets in the period 1988-1994 is investigated in this paper. The empirical results based on extreme-value estimators and vector autoregression indicate the...

The accuracy of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) monthly estimates of the nation’s quarterly nominal and real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates are examined using a novel analytical framework based on the flexible two-piece generalized distribution. An analysis of the...

This paper uses the Hawkes self- and mutual-exciting point process to examine the influence network associated with the vintage violin market from its beginning in the second half of the 16th to the early 21st century. We focus on the violins attributed to the top 30 violin makers (luthiers)...

Mutual funds are either run by a single manager or by a management team. Which management design is better has long been a topic of interest. In the early 2000s, the proportion of team-managed funds rose, but in 2007 it leveled off. Using the constant term from Carhart’s 4-factor model as a...

This paper investigates calendar anomalies in the Turkish foreign exchange markets during 1986-1994 period. Changes in the free market and official daily exchange rates between the Turkish lira (TL) and US dollar (USD) and the German mark (DM) are examined for empirical regularities on different...