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2008--

[45]  The intertemporal relation between expected returns and risk, Journal of Financial Economics, January 2008, 87(1), 101-131.

 

[44]  Idiosyncratic Volatility and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 2008, 43(1), 29-58 (with Nusret Cakici).

 

[43]  Aggregate Earnings, Firm-Level Earnings, and Expected Stock Returns, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Hassan Tehranian).

 

[42]  Is There an Intertemporal Relation Between Downside Risk and Expected Returns? Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Haim Levy).

 

[41]  Risk Measurement Performance of Alternative Distribution Functions, Journal of Risk and Insurance, June 2008, 75(2), 411-437 (with Panayiotis Theodossiou).

 

[40]  A Model-Independent Measure of Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk, Journal of Empirical Finance, forthcoming (with Nusret Cakici and Haim Levy).

 

[39]  The Role of Autoregressive Conditional Skewness and Kurtosis in the Estimation of Conditional VaR, Journal of Banking and Finance, February 2008, 32(2), 269-282 (with Hengyong Mo and Yi Tang).

 

[38]  Nonlinear Mean Reversion in Stock Prices, Journal of Banking and Finance, May 2008, 32(5), 767-782 (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Haim Levy).

 

[37]  The Conditional Beta and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns, Financial Management, forthcoming (with Nusret Cakici and Yi Tang).

 

[36]  Testing Mean Reversion in Financial Market Volatility: Evidence from S&P 500 Index Futures, Journal of Futures Markets, January 2008, 28(1), 1-33 (with K. Ozgur Demirtas).

 

[35]  Small Sample Bias in Panel Data, Finance Letters, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas).

 

 

2007

[34]  An Extreme Value Approach to Estimating Interest Rate Volatility: Pricing Implications for Interest Rate Options, Management Science, February 2007, 53(2), 323-339.

 

[33]  A Conditional Extreme Value Volatility Estimator Based on High-Frequency Returns, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, February 2007, 31(2), 361-397 (with David Weinbaum).

 

[32]  A Generalized Extreme Value Approach to Financial Risk Measurement, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, October 2007, 39(7), 1611-1647.

 

[31]  Modeling the Dynamics of Interest Rate Volatility with Skewed Fat-Tailed Distributions, Annals of Operations Research, April 2007, 151(1), 151-178.

 

[30]  A Conditional-SGT-VaR Approach with Alternative GARCH Models, Annals of Operations Research, April 2007, 151(1), 241-267 (with Panayiotis Theodossiou).

 

[29]  Cyclicality in Catastrophic and Operational Risk Measurements, Journal of Banking and Finance, April 2007, 31(4), 1191-1235 (with Linda Allen).

 

[28]  Value at Risk and the Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns, Journal of Banking and Finance, April 2007, 31(4), 1135-1166 (with Bing Liang and Suleyman Gokcan).

 

[27]  A New Look at Hedging with Derivatives: Will Firms Reduce Market Risk Exposure? Journal of Futures Markets, November 2007, 27(11), 1053-1083 (with Susan Hume and Terrence Martell).

 

[26]  The Relativity of Volatility, The Value-at-Risk Reference April 2007, pp. 429-439 (with Salih N. Neftci) Edited by Jon Danielsson, Risk Books.

 

 

2006

[25]  Is There a Risk-Return Tradeoff? Evidence from High-Frequency Data, Journal of Applied Econometrics, December 2006, 21(8), 1169-1198 (with Lin Peng).

 

[24]  Inflation Shoe Leather Costs and Average Inflation Rates Across Countries, Journal of International Money and Finance, November 2006, 25(7), 1103-1129 (with Thom B. Thurston).

 

[23]  A Comprehensive Analysis of the Short-Term Interest Rate Dynamics, Journal of Banking and Finance, April 2006, 30(4)1269-1290 (with Liuren Wu).

 

[22]  Peer Pressure: Industry Group Impacts on Stock Valuation Precision and Contrarian Strategy Performance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Spring 2006, 32(3), 80-92 (with K. Ozgur Demirtas, Armen Hovakimian, and John Merrick).

 

[21]  Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk and Market Returns, Journal of Investment Management, 4th Quarter 2006, 4(4), 4-14 (with Nusret Cakici).

 

 

2005

[20]  Does Idiosyncratic Risk Really Matter? Journal of Finance, April 2005, 60(2), 905-929 (with Nusret Cakici, Xuemin Yan, and Zhe Zhang).

 

[19]  The Empirical Performance of Alternative Extreme-Value Volatility Estimators, Journal of Futures Markets, September 2005, 25(9), 873-892. (with David Weinbaum).

 

 

2004

[18]  Cyclicality in the Catastrophic Risk of Financial Institutions, Operational Risk Modelling and Analysis: Theory and Practice, August 2004, pp. 209-246 (with Linda Allen and Yi Tang) Edited by Marcelo Cruz, Risk Books.

 

[17]  Alternative Approaches to Estimating VaR for Hedge Fund Portfolios, Intelligent Hedge Fund Investing April 2004, pp. 253-277 (with Suleyman Gokcan) Edited by Barry Schachter, Risk Books.

 

[16]  Value at Risk and Expected Stock Returns, Financial Analysts Journal, March 2004, 60(2), 57-73 (with Nusret Cakici).

 

 

2003

[15]  Disturbing Extremal Behavior of Spot Rate Dynamics, Journal of Empirical Finance, September 2003, 10(4), 455-477 (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

[14]  The Generalized Extreme Value Distribution, Economics Letters, June 2003, 79(3), 423-427.

 

[13]  Modeling the Stochastic Behavior of Short Term Interest Rates: Pricing Implications for Discount Bonds, Journal of Banking and Finance, February 2003, 27(2), 201-228.

 

[12]  An Extreme Value Approach to Estimating Volatility and Value at Risk Journal of Business, January 2003, 76(1), 83-108.

 

 

2002

[11]  Excessive Variation in Risk Factor Correlations and Volatilities, Journal of Futures Markets, December 2002, 22(12), 1119-1146 (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

[10]  On the Efficiency of Monetary Policy Rules with Flexible Prices and Rational Expectations, Journal of Economics and Business, December 2002, 54(6), 615-631 (with Thom B. Thurston).

 

 

2001

[9]  The Relativity of Volatility, Risk, April 2001, 14(4), 91-94  (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

[8]  Estimating the Term Structure of Interest Rate Volatility in Extreme Values, Journal of Fixed Income, March 2001, 10(4), 7-14 (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

 

2000

[7]  Empirical Estimates of Inflation Tax Laffer Surfaces: A 30 Country Study, Journal of Development Economics, December 2000, 63(2), 529-546 (with Thom B. Thurston).

 

[6]  Modeling the Conditional Mean and Variance of the Short Rate Using Diffusion, GARCH, and Moving Average Models, Journal of Futures Markets, September 2000, 20(8), 717-751.

 

[5]  Testing the Empirical Performance of Stochastic Volatility Models of the Short Term Interest Rate, Journal of Financial and Quatitative Analysis, June 2000, 35(2), 191-215.

 

[4]  U.S. Money Demand and the Welfare Cost of Inflation in a Currency-Deposit Model, Journal of Economics and Business, June 2000, 52(3), 233-258.

 

[3]  Pricing Eurodollar Futures Options Using the BDT Term Structure Model: The Effect of Yield Curve Smoothing, Journal of Futures Markets, March 2000, 20(3), 293-306 (with Ahmet K. Karagozoglu).

 

 

1999

[2]  An Empirical Comparison of Continuous Time Models of the Short Term Interest Rate, Journal of Futures Markets, October 1999, 19(7), 777-798.

 

[1]  Implementation of the BDT Model with Different Volatility Estimators: Applications to Eurodollar Futures Options, Journal of Fixed Income, March 1999, 8(4), 24-34 (with Ahmet K. Karagozoglu).