In November 2008, the United States (US) Federal Reserve began purchasing mortgage-backed security obligations, in an attempt to support the failing housing market and improve financial market conditions. This paper provides an investigation of the volatility effects associated with regularly...

Green economy is the way forward to achieve economic, social and environmental, sustainable development. However, to accelerate the transition to green economy, private sector companies need to understand the impact of imposing green polices and activities on the economy. Therefore, this paper...

This paper examines the time-varying conditional correlations of daily European equity market returns during the Irish sovereign debt crisis. A dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) multivariate GARCH model is used to estimate to what extent the collapse of Irish equity markets and subsequent...