Within a two step GARCH framework we estimate the time-varying spillover effects from European and US return innovations to 10 economic sectors within the euro area, the United States, and the United Kingdom. We use daily data from January 1988 - March 2002. At the beginning of our sample...

This paper investigates the existence of long-run benefits of the international diversification in the equity markets of the US and the Pan-European Stock Exchange. The study which spans 6 years uses weekly data based on closing values of the general indices of Dow & Jones Industrial Average and...