Research

Articles in Refereed Publications

  • Leverage and Asymmetric Volatility: The Firm Level Evidence, (2016), with Jan Ericsson and Xiao Huang. Journal of Empirical Finance
  • The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade: Learning from the Japanese Economic Experience, (2015) with William Tsutsui, Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 6.
  • Unconditional and conditional exchange rate exposure. (2012) with Ines Chaieb (previously circulated as "Foreign exchange exposure of U.S. firms and macroeconomic conditions: Is there a link?"), Journal of International Money and Finance. Download pre-print
  • Asset pricing in segmented markets. Evidence from lab experiments, (2011) With Lucy Ackert, and Qi Li. Southern Economic Journal , 77(3), 585–598
  • Performance, Bias, and Efficiency of Foreign Exchange Correlation Forecasts, (2008), Review of Futures Markets. Volume 17, Number 2 issue (Fall) Download from SSRN.
  • How Important is Asymmetric Covariance for the Risk Premium of International Assets? (2008), Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 32, Issue 8, August 2008, Pages 1636-1647. Inquire Europe and Inquire UK Best Doctoral Paper at the European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial 2004 in Maastricht. Download.
  • The Accuracy of Density Forecasts from Foreign Exchange Options, (2005) with Peter Christoffersen, Journal of Financial Econometrics 2005 3(4):578-60. Download (previously circulated as "The Informational Content of Over-the-Counter Currency Options", European Central Bank Working Paper No 366, Download)
  • Foreign Exchange Option and Returns Based Correlation Forecasts: Evaluation and Two Applications, European Central Bank Working Paper No. 447, Download

Presentations

  • Coles Seminar Series - Multi-horizon International Intertemporal Investments
  • Mathematics Fundations for International Students of Economics and Finance
  • Subprime credit card default patterns
  • Invited Vising Professor Lecture - Foreign exchange exposure
  • Invited Vising Professor Lecture - Default of credit constrained borrowers

Research Interest

  • International Finance
  • Empirical asset pricing
  • Volatility
  • Credit Constrained Lending

Research in Progress

  • Credit Constrained Consumer Credit, with L. and Jennifer Priestly and Edwin Baidoo
  • Is Exchange Risk Priced Beyond Intertemporal Risk? with Ines Chaieb and Oumar Sy, WP Kennesaw State University, Download
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