What are the forces behind the increasing globalization of economic life? How does globalization affect the functioning of national economies? What difficulties confront government policymakers in dealing with the global economy? These issues are addressed in this volume by leading specialists....

Points out that the decline in international economic differentials makes country effects less important and sector effects more important in managing equity funds; but that there is little research on sector and sub‐sector specific risks. Presents a study of sector and sub‐sector volatility...

Fama and French (1989) identify two useful variables for forecasting expected asset returns: the default and term spread. Jensen et al. (1996) show that the ability of default and term spreads to forecast expected returns is dependent upon the monetary environment. Motivated by the theoretical...

Recent evidence has suggested that a model capable of capturing multiple volatility dynamics best describes daily exchange rate volatility. Estimation of a model that can capture long-run and short-run volatility movement also allows issues relating to financial and economic integration between...

Using a Markov Switching Model, the hypothesis that <italic>ex post</italic> commercial sector risk premiums have stable mean values within a time-varying framework is investigated. The probabilities of shifting expected values and the transitional probabilities of remaining in a high (low)-risk state at each...