This research points to the serious problem of potentially misspecified alternative hypotheses when testing for unit roots in real exchange rates. We apply a popular unit root test against nonlinear ESTAR and develop a Markov Switching unit root test. The empirical power of these tests against...

This study considers emerging market central bank interventions motivated by international reserve management. Emerging market central banks use currency intervention as a policy tool against exchange rate movements and accumulate international reserves as an insurance against sudden stops or...

The conventional, risk-based view on liquidity beta is often a dismal story for empirical data. We propose a competing, sentiment-based view on the reversed pricing pattern of liquidity beta in China: High liquidity beta stocks underperform low liquidity beta stocks by 1.17% per month. The...