Australian interest rate volatility is modelled to examine the effect of quarterly inflation rate announcements on interest rate volatility. The data used in this empirical analysis consists of the daily closing rates for 90 day Australian treasury bills from 3 July 1985 to 31 December 1993....

This paper models dynamic correlations between the Asian stock market returns and studies their behaviour over the period before, during and after the Asian financial crisis, which occurred in the 1990s. To establish the presence of contagion effect, this paper investigates whether or not there...