My dissertation is motivated by the limited number of multivariate macro-finance asset pricing models which allow for (multiple threshold) regime shifts. Indeed, after more than 35 years of research on asset pricing, one of the central unresolved problems in the financial literature is the...

We empirically investigate the predictive power of the various components affecting correlations that have been recently introduced in the literature. We focus on models allowing for a flexible specification of the short-run component of correlations as well as the long-run component. Moreover,...