Advisor Choice in Asia-Pacific Property Markets

Derivatives in Asia-Pacific Markets

The Interaction of Asia-Pacific Futures Markets

This paper examines the intertemporal pricing behavior between the largest futures markets within the Pacific region with those in the UK and US. Both mean return and volatility transmissions between these markets are analyzed to understand the channels by which the international pricing mechanism functions. Results obtained from using a mixture of intraday and overnight returns show a preponde...

Disequilibrium in Asia-pacific Futures Markets: an Intra-day Investigation

This paper examines the weak form market efficiency using transactions data. Previous studies have mainly used daily data to investigate whether trading rules can result in abnormal profits with mixed results. This study on the other hand uses trade-by-trade data to apply trading rules such as moving average and filter. Two different futures contracts the Australian All Ordinaries Index traded ...

U.S. and Asia Pacific Equity Markets Causality Test

This paper focuses on the causality relation between US and the several Asia-pacific markets (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and Indonesia). We check the causality of the co-movement among the markets across Pacific by using Granger-Causality test, VAR, and event studying on unexpected high volatile period. Our tests show that U.S. and Japan have strong influence to other As...

Incorporation of Medical Research and Education in Asia Pacific Region

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...