This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns, within a wide range of advanced economies, over the different phases of the recent financial crisis. The adopted empirical framework is a bivariate volatility model, where...

This paper studies high-frequency econometric methods to test for a jump in the spread of bond yields. We propose a coherent inference procedure that detects a jump in the yield spread only if at least one of the two underlying bonds displays a jump. Ignoring this inherent connection by basing...

We investigate how output fluctuates before and after these financial crises hit the E-7 countries by excluding the crisis period defined earlier from the sample. The E-7 is referred to a group of seven emerging market countries-Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Mexico...