This paper critically reviews the practice of significance testing in modern finance research. Employing a survey of recently published articles in four top-tier finance journals, we find that the conventional significance levels are exclusively used with little consideration of the key factors...

This paper examines the linkage of real interest rates of a group of Pacific-Basin countries with a focus on East Asia. We consider monthly real interest rates of the US, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand from 1980 to 2004. The impulse response analysis and half-life estimation are conducted...

This paper examines the cross-currency linkage of LIBOR-OIS spreads. We consider daily spread data in five major currencies for the period of March 1, 2006 to Nov 11, 2008. The impulse response analysis is conducted in a multivariate setting, adopting the bias-corrected bootstrap as a means of...

We utilize a novel method from Phillips, Shi and Yu (2013) to investigate whether Singaporean real estate markets have experienced bubbles. This method involves a doubly recursive right tailed unit root test which can be used for real time policy decisions. We fi nd that the Singaporean real...

Using recently developed econometric procedures (Phillips, Wu and Yu, 2011; Phillips, Shi and Yu, 2015), we find evidence of temporary episodes of explosive behaviour in price-to-rent ratios for established houses, in five of Australia's largest cities. One interpretation of our results is that...