This study examines asymmetries in real estate investment trust (REIT) returns using a variety of metrics, and compares them to several stock indexes and the U.S. long-term government bond index. The findings reveal that ...
We examine the relation between trading volume and skewness in 11 international stock markets using daily and monthly data from
January 1980 to August 2004. We construct single equation and VAR models of the relation ...
Cripwell, Peter; Edelman, David(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2008-03-04)
The definition of the decline of long term yields in the light of increasing short term yields as a conundrum by Chairman Greenspan in February 2005 has generated a significant amount of research. This paper presents a ...
Cripwell, Peter; Edelman, David(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2008-04-02)
In this paper new results are documented regarding the short term evolution of global short term interest rates. Much work has been carried out concerning the evolution of interest rates over long time scales, on the order ...
Dowd, Kevin; Cotter, John; Sorwar, Ghulam(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. School of Business, 2008-04-18)
Spectral risk measures (SRMs) are risk measures that take account of user risk aversion, but to date there has been little guidance on the choice of utility function
underlying them. This paper addresses this issue by ...
Hutson, Elaine; Mahony, Darragh(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2008-04)
This study compares the takeover premiums for 55 private equity buyouts with 59
takeovers involving a public acquirer, from the US takeover market between 2004 and 2007. This investigation takes place amidst accusations ...
Spectral risk measures (SRMs) are risk measures that take account of user risk-aversion, but to date there has been little guidance on the choice of utility function underlying them. This paper addresses this issue by ...
This article examines the likelihood of high-sigma loss events, paying particular attention to the so-called 25-sigma events which a number of financial institutions have allegedly experienced in the recent financial ...