ETFs and index funds have grown at very rapid rates in recent years. Originally launched to track some large liquid indices in developed markets, they now also concern less liquid asset classes such as emerging market bonds. Illiquidity certainly affects the quality of the replication, and in...

Financial markets are today so interconnected that they are fragile to contagion. Massive investment funds with very short horizons in -and out- flows can generate contagion effects between markets. Since 2010, investors are willing to get a liquid exposure to the EM sovereign debt. As a...

The aim of this thesis is to improve the management of financial risks through the employment of econometric methods. We focus on liquidity (market and funding), contagion and systemic risk, which have attracted a particularly large interest in the last years of financial turmoil. Firstly, we...