This paper examines the Melo-Vogt hypotheses and compares the effects of economic openness in China and India. The two defining characteristics of this paper are the addition of a cross term containing the economic globalization index to the traditional import demand function model, and testing...

This study uses nonstationary time series approach to test the sustainability of the current account deficits in China over the period from 1982 to 2009. Our empirical results suggest that, despite the cointegrating relationship between imports and exports in China, the intertemporal external...

This paper uses the concept of cointegration for empirically analyzing the long-run relationship of China's import demand function. The analysis employs the annual data for the sample period from 1978 to 2009. The purpose of this study is to investigate and explain China's import demand...

This article represents a valuable contribution to the existing literature on the relationship between financial sector growth -- specifically, of microfinance institutions (MFIs) -- and poverty levels in developing countries. We propose a concept termed herein <italic>financial permeation</italic> to describe...

This study explores the time-varying correlations among the bank industry Credit Default Swap (CDS) indices for the EU, the UK and the US, using the asymmetric Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model developed by Cappiello <italic>et al</italic>. (2006). The main findings of the study include: (i) The...

This article investigates the sustainability of trade balances in the sub-Saharan African regions, using both the panel unit root (Im--Pesaran--Shin (IPS)) test proposed by Im <italic>et al.</italic> (2003) and the cross-sectionally augmented version of the IPS (Pesaran Cross-sectional IPS (CIPS)) test suggested...

In this paper, we investigate the conditional correlations between the bond markets in CEEC-3 (i.e., Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary) and Germany from 2000 to 2013 using the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation model developed by Cappiello et al. (J Financ Econ 4:557–572, <CitationRef CitationID="CR4">2006</CitationRef>)....</citationref>

This paper adopts the robust cross-correlation function methodology developed by Hong (J Econom 103:183–224, <CitationRef CitationID="CR14">2001</CitationRef>) in order to test for volatility and mean spillovers between Greek long-term government bond yields and the banking sector stock returns of four Southern European countries, namely...</citationref>

This article investigates volatility changes in the 10-year Greek sovereign bond index returns using the multiple structural break test developed by Bai and Perron (Econometrica 66:47–78, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1998</CitationRef>, J Appl Econ 18:1–22, <CitationRef CitationID="CR2">2003</CitationRef>), which allows for endogenous identification of break dates. We find...</citationref></citationref>

This paper discusses the time-varying degree of flexibility in exchange rate regimes and assesses the extent to which securities markets are integrated in East Asia. The dynamic conditional correlation model developed by Engle (2002) is used to analyze the time-varying characteristics of the...