This article represents a valuable contribution to the existing literature on the relationship between financial sector growth -- specifically, of microfinance institutions (MFIs) -- and poverty levels in developing countries. We propose a concept termed herein <italic>financial permeation</italic> to describe...

This study explores the time-varying correlations among the bank industry Credit Default Swap (CDS) indices for the EU, the UK and the US, using the asymmetric Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model developed by Cappiello <italic>et al</italic>. (2006). The main findings of the study include: (i) The...

This article examines, empirically, whether financial deepening has contributed to poverty reduction in India. Using unbalanced panel data for 28 Indian states and union territories covering seven time periods (1973, 1977, 1983, 1987, 1993, 1999 and 2004), we empirically analyse whether...

This article analyses volatility transmission across the swap markets of the US, Japan and the UK. The two-step procedure developed by Cheung and Ng (1996) is used to examine causality-in-mean and causality-in-variance among the three countries. The empirical findings indicate the existence of...

This article examines the dynamic relationship between two key European short-term interest rates, the Eonia rate (EON) and the 3-month Euribor rate (ER3). Applying a threshold cointegration method developed by Hansen and Seo (2002) to monthly data over the period 1999 to 2011, we confirm that...

In this article, we investigate the dependence structure among international stock markets, with particular emphasis on developed and emerging stock markets, as proxied for by major country-level exchanges. Specifically, we adopt the copula model for the presented analysis and find that an...

We investigate the dynamic dependence structure between specific currencies (the GBP, the EUR and the JPY) and gold. The primary findings are as follows. First, the lower and upper conditional dependences between the currencies and gold were weaker during the financial turmoil period than in the...

This paper analyses the monetary aspects of the Japanese economy based on the cash-in-advance (CIA) model. The Svensson (1985) model and the Lucas and Stokey (1987) model are examined by calibration. The Euler equations obtained from the representative agent's optimization behaviour stand for a...

This article examines the performance of three multivariate conditional volatility models with respect to crude oil spot and futures returns: the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model, Asymmetric Dynamic Conditional Correlation (A-DCC) model and Diagonal Baba-Engle-Kraft-Kroner (Diagonal...

This article investigates the causal relationships between gold and stock market performance or uncertainty by employing nonuniform weighting cross-correlations. In our sample period covering the last decade, we detect a unidirectional causality in mean from stock to gold, but find no causality...