Measuring comovements across international financial markets is important for policy purposes and portfolio management. We develop a new approach to analyse such comovements in relation to key state variables, such as equity market volatility and short-term interest rates. These state variables...

This paper adopts a versatile multivariate conditional correlation model to estimate daily seasonality in the returns, the volatility, and the correlations between stocks, bonds, gold and Bitcoin. Besides the well known seasonality in stocks and bonds, the day-of-the-week effect is also present...