A hedging approach is used to examine the effect of sectoral factors on the effectiveness of international diversification. By using data covering seven countries and various sectors, we find that international diversification is more effective when assets from developed markets only are used...

This paper reassesses the 'stylised facts' of Australia's contemporary business cycle, by calculating select moments of the cyclical components in quarterly postwar macroeconomic data. In particular, the robustness of the cross-correlation sample moments to the detrending procedure are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis of long-run money neutrality for Egypt, Jordan and Morocco using seasonal cointegration techniques. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses seasonal integration and cointegration techniques to test the neutrality of money...