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autoregression, we derive return and volatility spillover indices over the rolling sub-sample windows. We show that there is … substantial difference between the behavior of the East Asian return and volatility spillover indices over time. While the return … spillover index reveals increased integration among the East Asian equity markets, the volatility spillover index experiences …
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We characterize asset return linkages during periods of stress by an extremal dependence measure. Contrary to correlation analysis, this nonparametric measure is not predisposed toward the normal distribution and can allow for nonlinear relationships. Our estimates for the G-5 countries suggest...
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This paper implements recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and Seemingly Unrelated regression (SUR) methods to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship between oil prices and Gulf Corporation Countries (GCC) stock markets. Since GCC countries are major world energy market...
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This paper assesses the extent to which a country's external capital structure can aid in mitigating the macroeconomic impact of oil price shocks. Two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks are considered: an oil importer (Jamaica) and an oil exporter (Trinidad and Tobago)....
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interventions confirms these results and the hedging channel. However, the policy entails fiscal and moral hazard costs. …
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point with a simple quantitative hedging model, where optimally used options and futures on the S&P100's implied volatility … seldom sufficient and always expensive to hold. In this paper we argue that adding richer hedging instruments to the …
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This paper investigates the extent to which the slope of the yield curve in emerging economies predicts domestic inflation and growth. It also examines international financial linkages and how the US and the euro area yield curves help to predict. It finds that the domestic yield curve in...
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This paper analyzes the relation between exchange rate volatility and several macroeconomic variables, namely real per … find that lower exchange rate volatility is associated with higher growth (for relatively less financially developed …
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This paper develops a multi-sector New Keynesian model of a small open economy that includes commodity, manufacturing, non-tradable, and import sectors. Price and wage rigidities are sector specific, modelled à la Calvo-Yun style contracts. Labour and capital are imperfectly mobile across...
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determination of both the levels and volatilities of these variables.We also consider more traditional estimation strategies as a … their volatility, than do ECB verbal pronouncements. …
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