How does the optimal risk exposure of assets change as their investment horizons increase? Does this impact investment portfolio decision-making, in particular, optimal asset allocation between value and growth strategies over various investment horizons? This paper adopts a new approach to...

Many empirical studies find that financial variables possess a predictive power over real economic activity. To examine this relationship, we adopt two time-series techniques: spectral analysis and a newly developed method, wavelet analysis. The major innovation of this paper is to apply wavelet...