This study presents our attempt to examine the linkages and to investigate the linkage of stock price indexes among Taiwan, China and its major trading countries. Our empirical analysis employs daily data on stock price indexes over the period of January 2, 2000 to May 10, 2010. The total number of observations is about 2500. This study employ a sequence of time-series methodologies, including unit root test, cointegration test, vector error correction model, Granger causality test, Criterion, autocorrelation test, heteroscedasticity test, GARCH and Bi-GARCH. The findings of this study as follows. First, after first difference, every stock price indexes series all became stationary. Second, we found there has no long-run interrelationship among these stock markets. Third, we found that Taiwan¡¦s stock market exits leading role to China¡¦s stock market, but other countries¡¦ stock market lead Taiwan¡¦s stock market. For China, the stock market of United States, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong has a leading role to China¡¦s stock market. Only the rela-tionship between South Korea and China¡¦s stock market is independent. Forth, the result of autocorrelation test and ARCH test indicates that the influence of stock price indexes of major trading countries to Taiwan and China¡¦s stock price index has changed over time. Finally, the result of study indicates that every stock market can forecast its future trend by using its past stock data and investor can use the past stock data of stock market of major trading countries to forecast Taiwan and China¡¦s stock market.

This study investigates the long-term and short-term dynamic relationships among the variables of stock returns and institutional investors' buy-sell difference in Taiwan's stock market for the sample periods from Jan., 2000 through May, 2009. Some econometrical methodologies are used in this study, such as unit test, vector autoregressive model, cointegration test, vector error correction model, impulse response function. The major empirical results are shown as follows: 1. Cointegration test For the sample periods, one long-term equilibrium relationship is found from the Johansen's cointegration test, significantly with 5% confidence level between stock year returns and the buy-sell difference for the foreign investment institutions, the domestic investment institutions, and the dealers. The long-term equilibrium relationship is Ry=1.65*QFII+4.28*FUND+35.22*DLR-1142.6. 2. VECM estimation (1)With the vector error correction model (VECM) being applied to the sample periods, the findings indicate that the changes of stock returns are not influenced among the short-term dynamic relationships by the changes of institutional investors' buy-sell difference, but only affected by one-period-lag of itself. (2) Among the short-term dynamic relationships, the changes of foreign investment institutions' buy-sell difference are affected by one-period-lag of institutional investors that positively affected by one-period-lag of the dealers, and inversely affected by one-period-lag of itself and one-period-lag of the domestic investment institutions. However, it is positively affected by one-period-lag of long-term equilibrium, which indicates foreign investment institutions follow positive feedback trading strategies. (3)The changes of the domestic investment institutions' buy-sell difference are only affected by one-period-lag of itself among the short-term dynamic relationships. (4)The changes of the dealers' buy-sell difference are positively affected among the short-term dynamic relationships by one-period-lag of the foreign investment institutions. As for the long-term relationships, it is affected by one-period-lag of long-term equilibrium, which also indicates the dealers follow positive feedback trading strategies. (5)The foreign investment institutions and the dealers have the mutual feedback relationship.

Resulting from the deregulation and prosperity of the economic and financial sectors in Asia during 1980s, a significant increase in cross-bordered financial transactions ultimately accelerated the region of Southeast Asia to be on a process of financial integration and consequently diminished opportunities for portfolio diversification. Financial Integration is a multidimensional process through which allocation of financial assets becomes lastly borderless. This purpose of this paper is to examine a progress thus far in capital market integration or preferentially, the co-movement of the equity markets between the U.S. and the Southeast Asian nations: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines by employing the methodology of Gregory and Hansen Cointegration and Error Correction Analysis (ECM). The consequence of the U.S. market performance on each Southeast Asian national markets are extensively analyzed by decomposing monthly price-index time series into three distinct sub-periods based on an occurrence of the Subprime Mortgage Financial Crisis in 2007. The results indicate that these four emerging markets had been considerable influenced by the U.S. market performance, regardless of crisis or non-crisis periods. Nevertheless, some countries like Indonesia and the Philippines acted differently during the pre-crisis and crisis sub-periods respectively due to their domestic market infrastructure and regulation adjustment. However, these two markets had eventually turned to share an interdependent long-run relationship with the U.S. equity market since the ending of the Subprime financial downturn. Moreover, this finding suggests that ongoing capital market integration in the Southeast Asian region would mitigate portfolio diversification benefits for investors by virtue of increasing in correlation among securities and assets. Therefore, more exhaustive investigation about equity market integration is significantly beneficial in macroeconomic and financial perspective.

The aim of this work is understand how the Exchange rate volatility affects the cearensesâs exports. Many researchers have appointed that an increase in the exchange rate volatility generate risk factors on trade. Therefore, understand the relationship between volatility and trade is fundamental to forecast better the behavior of trade under instabilities of the exchange markets, as the recent international crisis. The period of analysis is from 2002 to 2011 and the data has monthly frequency. Two methodologies are used to investigate this relationship: short run, through impulse response function, obtained from a VEC; long run, through the Johansen cointegration test. The results showed that the exchange volatility reduces the exports of CearÃ. / O objetivo deste trabalho à entender como a volatilidade da taxa de cÃmbio afeta as exportaÃÃes cearenses. Diversos autores tÃm apontado que uma volatilidade da taxa de cÃmbio mais elevada pode estar associada a fatores de risco de exportaÃÃo e importaÃÃo. Dessa forma, entender o relacionamento entre esses componentes à fundamental para aumentar o poder de previsibilidade, especialmente, em perÃodos de instabilidade econÃmica, em que a volatilidade da taxa de cÃmbio tende a ser maior. Nesse trabalho, utilizou-se de dados com frequÃncia mensal entre 2002 a 2012. Duas anÃlises foram feitas: uma de curto prazo, atravÃs da abordagem de funÃÃes impulso resposta obtidas a partir de um VEC e outra de longo prazo atravÃs do teste de cointegraÃÃo de Johansen (1991). Dos resultados encontrados, verificou-se que a volatilidade da taxa de cÃmbio tem efeito sobre as exportaÃÃes cearenses tanto no curto quanto no longo prazo. Ambos, longo e curto prazo, a volatilidade da taxa de cambio reduz o quantum exportado, indicando que tal volatilidade pode ser interpretada como risco associado as exportaÃÃes.

This paper has tested the efficiency, weak form according to EMH, of the currency future market. The efficiency test has been incorporated in the research question since the market has to be efficient in order for the future to work as predictor of the future spot rate - Can currency futures be used as a tool for predicting futures spot exchange rate? The two sub questions are - Is the prediction power of currency futures stable over time and is the prediction power of currency futures similar for different currencies?   The main theory in the research is the Efficient Market Hypothesis and the Random Walk Hypothesis. The research was conducted with a positivistic philosophy in conjunction with a realistic approach. Since the research question has been deducted from the theoretical framework the research has a deductive approach, a quantitative technique was adapted when the data at hand was mainly future and spot rate data.   Data on 13 currencies ranging from 2005 to 2010 was used. The prices were available in weekly intervals for all currencies except for the Brazilian real, Swiss frank and the Mexican peso. The statistical test that was used is the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test and the Phillips-Ouliaris cointegration test. The test was conducted on the whole timeframe. After that, the data was divided into three sub periods to show if the efficiency where different in the period before the crises (2005-2007), during the crises (2008-2009) and after the crises (2010). The test has also been done on annual and quarterly data to show if the length of the time period tested has an effect on efficiency. The PO test has been conducted on all data and the ADF test has been conducted on the whole timeframe and the sub periods.   The results show that, ten of the currencies which we had weakly data, the future is a good predictor of the future spot exchange rate. This is true when the tests are done on an interval of one year and more. For the three currencies that we had monthly data, the results showed cointegration on the whole timeframe. When shorter time periods were tested the currencies that consisted of monthly data showed no cointegration sooner than the weakly data. When test is done on quarterly data, only one test is cointegrated. It cannot concluded that, the future was not a good predictor for the future spot exchange rate during this time, merely that this particular test might be the true one and that the tests where not able to capture it. Several reasons for this are presented in the analysis chapter, where the statistical tests and their design are mentioned among other reasons.

Panel data analysis is the modern approach of statistical and econometric modeling. The aim of the thesis is to estimate the gravity model of international trade in alcoholic beverages in the form of bilateral trade flow depending on the gross domestic product and other associated variables that facilitate trading. The data have a panel structure. Based on the results of panel unit root tests the stationarity of variables in the panel and the expected long-term relationship between the analyzed variables are tested. Gravity model is assuming the existence of long-term relationships built through various methods, such as pooling OLS estimate, fixed and random effects models, cointegrated regression DOLS and FMOLS. Cointegration relationship is verified by Pedroni panel test.

本文的主要目的在於探討亞洲國家央行外匯存底的需求，研究的國家包括韓國、大陸、印度、新加坡、台灣與日本。透過使用1987年Engle-Granger的共整合分析法，我們發現這六國的外匯存底需求與其解釋變數具有共整合的現象。共整合現象的存在反映了這些國家的外匯存底需求存在長期的均衡關係。此外，為了進一步了解短期經濟的干擾如何影響外匯存底的需求，本文採用誤差修正模型做為分析工具，與過去文獻不同的是，本文的實證結果顯示本文所研究的六個國家之外匯存底顯著的受到貨幣成長率的影響，依據誤差修正模型的調整項亦可發現當外匯存底需求偏離長期均衡值時，此六國的調整速度相當慢，絕對值都在0.5以下，由於當一個經濟體系允許以緩慢的修正速度調整至長期均衡，必須擁有大量的外匯存底，由於本文所挑選的國家為全球著名的外匯存底持有國，其央行皆持有巨額的外匯存底，故本文的實證結果與理論假設一致。 / The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the demand characteristics for international reserves in some Asian countries including Korea, China, India, Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan. After applying the cointegration test of Engle-Granger (1987), we discover that the non-stationary macro time series of the group of the countries under study are cointegrated. Hence, international reserves in these Asian countries have displayed a long-run relationship with some determinants for the past several decades. Besides, we adopt an error correcting mechanism specification to investigate the short-run dynamic process of reserve holdings. Based on the error correction model (ECM), the rate of monetary growth is found to have a significant effect on reserve holdings in all of the six countries. In the end, the properties of the error correction terms among these countries are examined. We find that the absolute value of the error correction term is less than 0.5 in these economies. It implies that all of these six countries have very low adjustment speed of the demand for reserves. Owing to the huge stock of reserve holdings in this area, the results appear to be sensible.

本研究針對七個國家包括：美國、加拿大、英國、法國、日本、香港、與澳洲。檢驗各國主成分為REITs商品在內的不動產證券指數，對於該國的消費者物價指數與國際原油價格是否具有正向的通貨膨脹避險效果。並比較各國的普通股價指數對該國的消費者物價指數與國際原油價格的通貨膨脹避險效果。本研究首先檢驗各國不動產證券指數/普通股價指數之月增率與消費者物價指數/原油價格之月增率之間是否具有正相關性。並將消費者物價指數/國際原油價格之月增率以HP濾波分解成永久性部分與暫時性部分，以迴歸估計消費者物價指數/國際原油價格之月增率的永久性與暫時性部分對於不動產證券指數/普通股價指數之月增率是否有正向的解釋能力。並以Granger因果關係檢定通貨膨脹像消費者物價指數或原油價格的月增率是否會Granger影響不動產價格的月增率。最後在進行單根檢定確認各數列皆為I(1)數列之後，檢驗不動產證券指數/普通股價指數與消費者物價指數/國際原油價格是否存在共整合關係，亦即代表是否具有長期的均衡狀態。 結果發現，幾乎所有國家不動產證券指數的月增率不管是對物價指數的月增率或原油價格的月增率的相關係數大多為無相關，在美國、加拿大、與澳洲甚至有些微的負相關，沒有支持通貨膨脹避險的證據。而在迴歸分析的結果，在加拿大、英國、法國，與日本，物價指數月增率的永久性部分對不動產證券指數月增率有負向影響；在美國與香港則是物價指數月增率的暫時性部分對不動產證券指數月增率有負向影響。至於原油價格月增率的暫時性部分則在美國、法國、與澳洲找到對不動產證券指數存在負向影響的證據。其他國家則無法找到支持物價指數月增率或原油價格月增率的永久性或暫時性部分對不動產證券指數月增率具有正向影響。此外Grnager因果關係檢定中，只有美國的消費者物價指數月增率Granger影響不動產證券指數月增率。 而在假設無時間趨勢的共整合檢定之中，所有國家皆有顯著證據支持不動產證券指數與該國物價指數存在共整合關係，但若假設具有時間趨勢，只有加拿大，英國，日本與香港具顯著證據支持共整合關係的存在。而不動產證券指數與原油價格的共整合關係，不論有無時間趨勢，只有在加拿大、日本與澳洲這三個國家找到共整合關係存在的證據。 而普通股股價指數與消費者物價指數或原油價格實證結果顯示，相關係數檢定與不動產證券指數檢定結果相似，大多為無相關；只有美國、法國、與澳洲有些微負相關存在。迴歸分析中，物價指數月增率的永久性部分在加拿大、法國、與日本對普通股價指數月增率有負向影響；暫時性部分則在美國與澳洲對普通股價指數月增率有負向影響。原油價格月增率的暫時性部分在美國與法國對普通股股價指數存在負向影響的證據。而Grnager因果關係檢定中，在較多國家找到顯著證據支持原油價格月增率Granger影響不動產證券指數月增率。共整合檢定中，若不考慮時間趨勢，所有國家的股價指數均對物價指數存在共整合關係，但若考慮時間趨勢，則只有日本與香港有共整合現象；至於股價指數與原油價格的共整合檢定，不論有無時間趨勢，只有在日本、香港與澳洲找到些微共整合關係存在的證據。 整體而言，並無顯著證據存在支持不動產證券指數的報酬會隨著通貨膨脹的增加而增加；或是通貨膨脹的增加可以解釋不動產證券指數的報酬。然而不動產證券指數與消費者物價指數之間的確存在共整合關係，代表長期之下，兩者會往均衡方向調整，具有部分通貨膨脹避險能力。而普通股價指數與不動產證券指數的結果相同，但在檢設具有時間趨勢的共整合檢定上，不動產證券指數在四個國家存在共整合關係，普通股價指數則只有在兩個國家找到共整合存在的證據。不動產證券指數長期而言較普通股價指數具有較好的通貨膨脹避險效果。

本研究分別利用傳統 OLS、誤差修正模型以及 Bivariate GARCH 模型研究以摩根台股指數期貨規避台灣股價指數的避險效果，現貨部分除了摩根台股指數現貨之外，亦考慮了台灣加權股價指數，目的在於瞭解摩根指數期貨的避險效果，並提出未來台灣加權股價指數上市後一套研究指數期約避險績效的研究架構。 本研究實證結果發現： (1)將台灣加權股價指數、摩根台股指數現貨以及摩根台股指數期貨的每日收盤價取對數值，並且依照避險期間分為三種情況，利用 ADF(Augmented Dicky and Fuller)進行單根檢定，結果顯示三個時間數列皆非定態(stationary)。 (2)時間數列取一階差分之後，視為指數的報酬率，同樣利用 ADF 進行單根檢定，結果顯示三個時間數列呈現定態(stationary)，亦即時間列服從 I (1)。此時，報酬的迴歸式存在具有實質意義。進行供整合檢定之結果顯示，無論是台灣加權指數與摩根台股指數期貨市場間，或是摩根台股指數之現貨與期貨市場間存在長期穩定之均衡關係。因此欲研究現貨與期貨市場的避險比率，應考慮誤差修正項。 (3)在加權股價指數與摩根指數期貨間避險效果方面： 1.在樣本內實證中，傳統 OLS 除了在避險期間為每日的情況之外，所造成投資組合變異數降低幅度較大，有較好的樣本內避險效果表現。 2.在樣本外實證中，傳統 OLS 無論在何避險期間，所造成投資組合變異數降低幅度較小，其避險效果皆較差。 3.避險誤差均方根比較方面，傳統 OLS 表現較差。 (4)在摩根台股指數現貨與摩根指數期貨間避險效果方面 1.在樣本內實證中，傳統 OLS 在各避險期間，所造成投資組合變異數降低幅度較大，有較好的樣本內避險效果表現。 2.在樣本內實證中，傳統 OLS 無論在何避險期間，其避險效果差皆較差。 3.避險誤差均方根比較方面，同樣以傳統 OLS 表現較差。 / Investors of Taiwan Stock Market have been long lack of hedging tools. SIMEX has provided a new merchant, MSCI Taiwan Index Future on January 9,1997. In addition, Taiwan Futures Exchange is going to run on July, 1998. Though investors are still not familiar with the new derivatives. Futures will be the new markets in Taiwan and it is the right time for us to analyze it. This research use different econometrics methods to check if it is a good hedge tool for the investors. The results are as followed. 1.The time series of MSCI Taiwan Index futures, MSCI Index Spots and Taiwan Weighted Index are not stationary. They are integrated of order 1. 2.There exist cointegrations between MSCI Taiwan Index futures and MSCI Index Spots, in addition to MSCI Taiwan Index futures and Taiwan Weighted Index. 3.OLS Regression, Error Correction Model and Bivariate GARCH Model are applied to find the optimal hedge retio. Among them, the hedge ratios of Bivariate GARCH Model are dynamic while the other two are constant. 4.According to the in-sample hedging effects results, the OLS are outstanding. The low variance of hedging portfolios and the reduction percentage compared to the no-hedged portfolios prove that. 5.Investors may care more about the out-sample results. From the table we know that Error Correction Model and Bivariate GARCH Model perform better than OLS, especially when the time period is longer. 6.When we check the RMSE, we get the same conclusion that OLS is the worst one among the three methods.

中國大陸於1979年開始進行經濟改革，廣開經濟之門，大量吸收外資來活 潑各項經濟建設活動，正逐步邁向計劃商品經濟的新體制。其中，成立中 國鄭州市場的構想，乃至於正式開業，是大陸傳統社會主義的大改變，表 徵以市場機能為中心的資本主義在大陸抬頭，是應計劃經濟體制必需與自 由市場互相協調配合之經改政策的具體結果。中國鄭州商品交易所與上海 金屬交易所、深圳有色金屬交易所並稱為大陸三大期貨市場，占大陸期貨 總交易量的80％，深受舉世所矚目，成功與否，對大陸經改及形成亞太經 濟圈都具有重要意義。通常期貨市場加入純現貨市場經濟體系，對於穩定 價格和經濟發展有其正面貢獻。本文將探討中國大陸現階段如何建立期貨 市場？如何對大陸傳統經濟體制造成影響與挑戰？目前發展到甚麼程度？ 如何善加利用自由經濟體制的市場機能來成功的發展期貨市場？本文欲對 大陸目前尚在初級水準的期貨市場提出意見，甚至期待其能發展成全球性 期貨市場。本文對全中國大陸期貨市場將作一全面性的概觀、對幾個主要 的期貨交易所作一重點式的簡介，然後進入本文重點，亦即對中國鄭州商 品交易所作詳細探討，包括其運作狀態、市場效率性等，以下是本文內容 。時間數列的資產價格大多為具有單根的非穩定性變數的特性已廣被接受 ，非穩性變數使傳統的F-統計量或t-統計量會得出不正確的檢定結果及估 計。本文採用 Engle & Granger(1987)的二階段估計法，首先以 Dickey & Fuller (1981) 的單根檢定 (ADF unit root test) 得出鄭州 交易所及芝加哥交易所的期貨價格為具有單根的時間數列，其次以 Engle & Granger (1987) 的共整合檢定方法，得出對於才自1993年5月28 日成立的中國大陸鄭州商品交易所與自1865年即開始期貨交易的美國芝加 哥期貨交易所 ( CBOT) 同種商品之間，包括小麥、玉米及大豆，不具共 整合關係，推論此二市場目前尚沒有長期穩定均衡關係，亦即此二市場為 區隔性 ( seg- mented) ，而非共整合性 (cointegrated) 。反之，對鄭 州交易所內不同商品的期貨價格作兩兩共整合檢定，呈現相當高的共整合 現象，隱含一種商品的期貨價格可以被另一種商品的期貨價格所預測 (predictability)，違反市場效率性的假說，故本文得出結論：中國大陸 鄭州商品交易所成立至今短短十個月 (截至1994年3月底止之資料)，尚不 具市場效率性。 / It is now widely accepted that financial price series are generally not stationary and consequently, conventional statisti- cal procedures like F-statistic and t-statistic are no longer appropriate for testing market efficiency and estimation. Since nonstationary variables have infinite variance that make the F- test or t-test invalid, the standard hypothesis testing does not apply to time series with unit roots. This article adopts Engle and Granger's (1987) two-stage estimation. Firstly, apply augu- mented Dickey & Fuller unit root test (1981) to the argricultur markets are with unit roots which means both time series variables are nonstationary. Secondly, apply Engle & Granger's (1987) Cointegration Test to test whether the cointegration relationship, including wheat, corn and soybean futures market, between CZCE and CBOT exists or not, the former one is established on May 28th, 1993 in Mainland China and the latter one is established since 1865 in the United States. The result is the wheat, corn and soybean futures prices in these two markets are not cointegrated which implys by now these two markets have no longterm equilibrium relationship, also implys CZCE and CBOT are segmented, not cointegrated. On the contrary, applying Engle & Granger's (1987) Cointegration Tests to test the different argriculture futures market in CZCE, cointegration can not be rejected. That implys one argriculture futures price can be predicted by other argriculture futures price and the market efficiency hypothesis is rejected. Therefore this article has the following conclusion : the empirical results by now presented the rejection of the market efficiency hypothesis for three argriculture products -- wheat, corn, and soybean -- traded on China Zhengzhou Commodities Exchange.