In this paper we examine the issue of asymmetry in the return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity … market into the Canadian and Mexican equity markets. We model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three … considerably from those for Mexico. In particular, the empirical results indicate that volatility spillover effects, but not return …

account for asymmetries of return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity market into Canada and Mexico. Unlike … previous research, we model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three markets using the asymmetric power … model of Ding, Granger and Engle (1993). The empirical results indicate that volatility spillover effects, but not mean …