Given the dominant role the U.S. economy plays in global trade, we explore how U.S. macroeconomic surprises affect stock markets in ten major developed economies as well as in China and India. We do not find strong enough evidence to conclude that US macro shocks materially and consistently...

Bai and Green (2010) argue that existing studies related to international diversification of portfolio mainly concentrated on the risk-returns tradeoffs from the developed markets perspective. Very few literatures available on the behavior on emerging markets, they are scarce in comparison to...

This article investigates international stock market integration in four major developed economies, namely the United States, the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom, and two Asian emerging, countries namely China and India, over the period from June...

This paper investigates the integration of emerging stock markets over different time horizons using daily data over 1992-2011. The links among major Middle East and North African (MENA) stock exchange markets (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey and United Arab Emirates) are...

This paper adopts a VAR-GARCH approach to model the dynamic linkages between both the mean and the variance of macro news and commodity returns (Gold, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Aluminium and Crude Oil) over the period 01/01/2001-26/09/2014. The chosen...

Bai and Green (2010) argue that existing studies related to international diversification of portfolio mainly concentrated on the risk-returns tradeoffs from the developed markets perspective. Very few literatures available on the behavior on emerging markets, they are scarce in comparison to...

Using returns of 4,916 stocks from 22 developed countries and 15 developing countries, this study examines the relative magnitude of conditional volatility and the international market systematic risk of stock prices in countries at different developmental stages and in various geographical...

This paper examines the degree of interdependence between national stock market returns for 17 advanced economies and the United States for various sub-periods from January 1973 to February 2009. The examination is based on time-series techniques including both single equation (ordinary least...

Common predictors variables for the equity premium such as financial ratios exhibit high persistence and thus are borderline non-stationary. This article sheds light on the possibility of fractional differencing those ratios in order to attain stationarity yet preserving the long-run memory....

Although spatial techniques have been used to capture the spillovers in asset returns across different regions, they have not yet been applied in an asset pricing context. Combining asset pricing models and equilibrium spatial models can be a good way to disentangle spillover effects across...