Schaller, Huntley; Norden, Simon Van - In: Applied Financial Economics 7 (1997) 2, pp. 177-191
An extension of Hamilton's Markov switching techniques (Hamilton, J. B., 1989, A new approach to the economic analysis of nonstationary time series and the business cycle, Econometrica, 57, 357-84) is used to describe and analyse stock market returns. Using new tests, very strong evidence is...