This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the relative importance of global structural shocks for changes in financial conditions across a sample of emerging market economies. We disentangle four key drivers of global financial markets (oil supply shocks, global economic news shocks,...

It has been established in the literature that volatility of stock returns exhibits complex properties of not only volatility clustering, but also long memory, regime change, and substantial outliers during turbulent and calm periods. Hence, this paper seeks to analyze volatility spillover,...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to propose an object-oriented model of financial simulations which aims to test the applicability and suitability of the proposed measures of Basel III with respect to the prevention of banking crises.Design/Methodology/Approach - We introduce an...

This paper investigates the occurrence of dependency between foreign exchange markets and stock markets in emerging market (EM) countries by testing volatility spillovers of asset returns using a BEKK GARCH (1,1) model. The author modifies the classical BEKK GARCH model in order to study the...

We examine the synchronization of European Union (EU) financial markets before and during the recent financial crisis. A DCC-GARCH framework captures dynamic correlations and a Markov-Switching framework captures regime changes. For the 27 nations of the EU, we formulate characteristics of the...

This paper addresses the following questions. Is there evidence of financial contagion in the Eurozone? To what extent a country's vulnerability to contagion depends on "fundamentals" as opposed the government's "credibility"? We look at the empirical evidence on European sovereigns CDS spreads...