The paper develops an international capital asset pricing model, which includes foreign currency risk, and examines the impact of capital market liberalisation on the pricing of risks. It applies the model to data from Pacific Basin financial markets and finds substantial evidence that not only...

This paper examines the financial links of a group of Pacific-Basin countries with U.S. and Japan by estimating the multivariate cointegration model in both the autoregressive and moving average forms over the period 1980-1998. The former allows us to examine the long-run relationships of these...

In this paper we analyze whether handling related securities improves a market maker's information environment and helps to incorporate new information in stock prices. Our empirical tests are focused on New York Stock Exchange specialists and the U.S. share in price discovery of 64 British and...

The paper investigates the dynamics of price changes and information flow to the market in the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece using daily data over the period 1988 to 1993. A generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) model in stock returns is shown to reflect time...

In this paper we study the implications for house price dynamics of the ongoing financializa- tion of housing, focusing on the role of real estate investment trusts (REITs). Building on the dramatic rise in REITs valuation in the last decade, we ask whether housing markets exposure to financial...