We study the term structure of interest rates and monetary policy in Japan empirically, using a macro-finance model. In particular, we investigate whether or not Japan's low long-term interest rates can be explained with economic rationality by taking into account some key features of the...

Equilibrium nominal interest rates are useful indicators for both monetary policy authorities and market players. However, there are few studies which estimate Japan's equilibrium rate because of its persistent low interest rate. We overcome this challenge by using survey forecasts of interest...

This paper investigates (i) what has determined the land investment behavior of Japanese firms since the latter half of the 1980s; and (ii) how the current market prices of their land assets diverge from their shadow prices (marginal values of land investment). To do so, we estimate nonlinear...

This paper applies a survival analysis to individual hedge fund data reported in the Lipper TASS database. We use several methodologies including the non-parametric survival analysis, the Semi-parametric Cox proportional hazard analysis with shared frailty, and the logit analysis to assess the...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic sources of time-varying risk premia in Turkish REIT industry within the arbitrage pricing theory framework. Turkish REIT industry differs substantially from the global REIT market as Turkish REITs do not have to pay out dividends, yet enjoy the exemption...

Bu çalışma Türkiye’deki yatırımcıların hise senedi alım-satım davranışlarını analiz etmektedir. Bu analiz için 55 sorudan oluşan bir anket 85 kişi üzerinde uygulanmıştır ve yatırımcıların verdikleri cevaplar esas alınmıştır. Anket demografik özellikler, algılanan...

This paper investigates how reward-to-risk ratios compare among various government debt security (GDS) indices and sector indices in the Istanbul Stock Exchange. Risk is measured by either standard deviation or nonparametric and parametric value at risk. We find that the GDS indices have higher...

Bu çalışmanın amacı Fama ve French üç faktör modeline momentum faktörünün eklenmesiyle oluşturulan dört faktör modelinin İMKB’de hisse senedi getirilerini açıklama gücünün test edilmesidir. Çalışma Temmuz 1992 – Haziran 2008 döneminde (192 ay) İMKB’ye kote olmuş...

Based on a vector autoregressive model, this paper shows that time variation in monthly excess returns on Swiss government bonds and stocks is predominantly driven by news of inflation and dividends, respectively. This finding is in marked contrast to US evidence which points to a more prominent...

We estimate the response of Asian stock market prices to exogenous monetary policy shocks using a vector error correction model. In our paper, monetary policy transmits to stock market price through three routes: money by itself, exchange rate, and inflation. Our result points to the fact that...