With due credit to the globalized interlinked economy, the international linkages, information transmission, and the spillover effect from one futures market to other markets across the world is well researched and documented. Especially several studies on equity, currency, and commodity markets...

The past two decades have seen substantial deregulation in the financial sectors of most OECD countries. The main motivation was to improve efficiency within the financial system, but the macroeconomic implications might go beyond this objective with impacts on the business cycle and the...