Pakistan using co-integration and causality analysis during the period 0f 1972-2010. A large number of empirical studies on the …

observed that the volatility shocks are quite persistent and take a long time to die out. September 11, 2001incident and … thereafter war on terror has increased the conditional volatility of foreign direct investment and has statistically significant … volatility. One interesting finding of this study is that the impact of Non-Democratic regime before September, 11 scenario is …

In this paper we examine the issue of asymmetry in the return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity … market into the Canadian and Mexican equity markets. We model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three … considerably from those for Mexico. In particular, the empirical results indicate that volatility spillover effects, but not return …

A model-free methodology is used for the first time to estimate a daily volatility index (VIBEX-NEW) for the Spanish … display a negative, tight contemporaneous relationship with IBEX daily returns, contrary to other common volatility indicators …, as an implied volatility indicator or a GARCH(1,1) conditional volatility model. This relationship is approximately …

-variate GARCH-in-mean model and volatility spillovers. The empirical results show the significant effects (positive and negative …, respectively) of the stock market returns, interest rate, and exchange rate volatility of the financial sector during the crisis …. Besides, we find, in most cases, significant (positive and negative, respectively) volatility spillovers from market return …

This study provides analytical insight on modelling macroeconomic and oil price volatility in Nigeria. Mainly, the … GARCH - M); and oil price is a major source of macroeconomic volatility in Nigeria. By implication, the Nigerian economy is … vulnerable to both internal shocks (interest rate volatility, real GDP volatility) and external shocks (exchange rate volatility …

employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline …

National Networks for Rural Development, respectively, are discussed using the example of the case of Romania, where these … involved in LEADER in Romania, Hungary and Germany. We conclude that networking is a key factor for successfully implementing …