Bredin, Donal; Hyde, Stuart(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2009)
This paper investigates the degree of both foreign exchange rate and interest rate
exposure of industry level portfolios in the G7. Our paper draws on the efficient market
hypothesis and examines the extent of unexpected ...
Volatility modelling is a key issue for the finance industry from an academic and practitioner perspective. This is understandable given the importance that volatility plays in risk management and the development of accurate ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
In recent years the finance industry from an academic and practitioner perspective has
placed heavy emphasis on the analysis of volatility models. This is understandable
given the importance that volatility plays for ...
The internal rate of return to schooling is a fundamental economic parameter that is
often used to assess whether expenditure on education should be increased or decreased.
This paper considers alternative approaches to ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-07-19)
This paper examines the experience of The Gambia following the liberalization of its exchange rate and financial markets in the mid-1980's. It is shown that although nominal interest rates are high, and the real interest ...
In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate of return to that private investment. While the literature is replete with studies that estimate the ...
We investigate the influence of changes in UK monetary policy on UK stock returns and the possible reasons behind such a response. Firstly, we conduct an event study to assess the impact of unexpected changes in monetary ...
This paper investigates the risk-return relationship in determination of housing asset
pricing. In so doing, the paper evaluates behavioral hypotheses advanced by Case and
Shiller (1988, 2002, 2009) in studies of boom ...
This paper investigates the risk-return relationship in determination of housing asset pricing. In so doing, the paper evaluates behavioral hypotheses advanced by Case and Shiller (1988, 2002, 2009) in studies of boom and ...