We study asset allocation when the conditional moments of returns are partly predictable.

In this paper, we provided a unifying analysis of latent variable models in finance through the concept of stochastic discount factor (SDF).

In this paper, the central question is which International CAPM is appropriate to price a firm's assets in an internationally integrated world.

This paper discusses how a consistent treatment of asset markets may be integrated into standard trade-focussed CGE models. Starting from a core specification of the real economy, calibrated to data for Zambia in the mid-1990s, the paper examines the properties of a hierarchy of models which...

This paper provides a unifying framework in which identified offset and sterilisation equations can be derived and estimated. The theoretical model suggests that, in the case where the central bank cares about bouth external and internal goals and capital is less than perfectly mobile, there...

The paper derives and tests maximum likelihood parameter estimators for symmetrically correlated Weiner processes observed at discrete intervals. Such processes are arise when pricing and determining Value-at-Risk for portfolio derivatives. Cases of driftless and mean-reverting state variables...

The interdependence of Japan’s Nikkei (JN), Taiwan Weighted (TW), Singapore Strait Times (SST), Korea Composite (KC) and Hang Seng (HS) SPIs is tested on 2739 daily observations for July 8, 1990 to July 6, 2000.

The entropy principle yields, for a given set moments, a density that involves the smallest amount of prior information. We first show how entropy densities may be constructed in a numerically efficient way as the minimization of a potential. Next, for the case where the first four moments are...

The weekend effect is an empirical enomaly that has attracted substantial attention. Following the work of Connoly (1989) it is necessary to revisit previous empirical work. In this paper we examine the weekend effect in Malaysia over the period 1986-1993.