This paper analyzes the role of commodities in the process of strategic asset allocation, with an attempt of computing the weight of commodities relative to traditional assets in a multi-period portfolio choice problem and understanding the economic interpretations to its importance. We find...

Applying the new panel unit root test developed in this paper, we can overcome the pitfalls of old-fashioned panel unit root tests and makes it possible for researchers testing individual series for a unit root while taking contemporaneous cross-sectional dependence into account. The proposed...

The current paper contributes to the empirical literature in bank profitability by being the first piece of research innovatively uses Boone indicator to test the competition in different banking markets namely deposit market, loan market and non-interest income market and further examine their...