The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of terrorism on tourism demand in Greece using monthly data from 1977 to 2012. We investigate whether this relationship is bidirectional and whether it exhibits long run persistence. Thus, we employ a large dataset of terrorist incidents and...

This paper investigates the reaction of the London Stock Exchange to the announcement of the city hosting 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The expectations of the Olympic Games, are the anticipation of massive economic boosts to the host cities. These expectations are presumed to be translated into...

This paper investigates financial contagion as an asymmetric propagation mechanism across both equity and foreign exchange markets. In order to provide a robust analysis of the contagion dynamics, we apply an asymmetric generalized dynamic conditional correlation (AG-DCC) model. This...