In this paper we provide evidence that the effects of the different waves of asset purchase programmes implemented by the ECB from 2009 onwards have spilled over into asset price volatility developments of a group of six Central and Eastern European economies belonging to the EU but not to the...

Considering the mean and the volatility correlation of Chinese and foreign stock market may undergo structural changes because of the reform and opening-up, the paper attempts to incorporate Markov state transition mechanism(MS) into both the VAR model and DCC-MVGARCH model at the same time....

This dissertation deals with the impact of speculative behaviour on output patterns of the real economy. The impact may be twofold. Speculative behaviour occurs due to positive developments at the real economy and optimistic outlooks. Also, speculative behaviour may occur at other markets, like...