Since few decades, a wide theoretical debate is concerned with the fundamental relationship between financial development and economic growth. An efficient financial system leads to a sustainable economic growth. In this study, we are interested especially with stock markets as a main component...

This study examines whether the United States (US) macroeconomic news announcements affect volatilities of emerging stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region. For this purpose, the behavior of GARCH volatilities of nine major emerging markets (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan,...

In this paper, we investigate whether oil risk is priced in selected emerging markets of the Middle East region—in particular, oil-producing countries. Given that these countries have maintained fixed exchange rates against the U.S. dollar, we are able to modify the multivariate GARCH...