There has been a resurgence of interest in dynamic factor models for use by policy advisors. Dynamic factor methods can be used to incorporate a wide range of economic information when forecasting or measuring economic shocks. This article introduces dynamic factor models that underlie the...

This paper examines the short term and long term dependencies between stock market returns for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) during the period 2005–2010. Our empirical investigation is based on the...

This paper investigates the dynamics of information flow between stock return and trading volume in the Tunisian Stock Market (TSE) using intraday data covering the year 2006. The Cross-Correlation Function (CCF) suggested by Cheung and Ng is employed to detect the causality in mean and in...