In this paper, we use weekly stock market data to examine whether the volatility of stock returns of ten emerging capital markets of the new EU member countries has changed as a result of their accession in the EU. In particular we are interested in understanding whether there are high and low...

This paper examines the issue of mean and variance causality across four equity markets using daily data for the period 1996-2002. We apply the testing procedure developed by Cheung and Ng (1996) in order to test for mean and variance spillovers among the stock markets of Cyprus, Athens, London...

This paper provides an analysis of regime switching in volatility and out-of-sample forecasting of the Cyprus Stock Exchange using daily data for the period 1996-2002. We first model volatility regime switching within a univariate Markov-Switching framework. Modelling stock returns within this...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the macroeconomic effects of commercial policy in the form of a general non-retaliatory tariff imposed by a small open economy under flexible exchange rates. The Mundellian analysis which has dominated the discussion in this area has been that a tariff...

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