This article studies the monetary transfers system that was created by the short-term inland bill of exchange markets. For decades this system was the most practical way of channeling the growing volume of transfers which were taking place as a consequence of the growth of the Spanish economy....

This paper reconsiders a block bootstrap procedure for Quasi Maximum Likelihood estimation of GARCH models, based on the resampling of the likelihood function, as proposed by Goncalves and White [2004. Maximum likelihood and the bootstrap for nonlinear dynamic models. journal of Econometrics...

In the context of limited dependence at large lags, Andrews (2002) showed the magnitudes of the error in rejection probabilities of the symmetric two-sided block bootstrap t, Wald and J tests. Andrews (2004) introduced the block-block bootstrap and proved that it obtained better asymptotic...

We analyze extreme movements of the main stocks market indexes in the European Union. We find that the Sweden and UK markets are the preferred ones for risk averse investors since they present the best risk-return performance. Moreover, the UK market is found to have a very low dependence with...

We have analysed extreme movements of the main stocks traded in the Eurozone by sectors in the 2000's decade. We find several patterns. <italic>First</italic>, we can classify firms by sector according to their different estimated Value-at-Risk (VaR) values but we cannot find differences according to their...