This paper focuses on the sovereign crisis of the Euro debt crisis era, and we address the existence of the relationship of CDS and bond markets sovereign credit risk pricing for selected core and periphery EMU countries, during and after the 2009 EMU crisis. We study this relationship in...

The purpose of this paper is to gain better understanding of the black market premium - the percentage differential between the black market and the official exchange rate. Tests are used to examine whether the black market premium responds to variations in expectations about the official...

This paper examines the issue of mean and variance causality across four Latin American official and black markets for foreign currency using the corresponding monthly exchange rate against the US dollar for the period 1976-1993. Specifically, we apply an EGARCH-M model to study the behaviour of...

In this study we explore the implications for the identification of common stochastic trends among stock price indices of using data transformed in a quot;real dollarquot; basis. By applying a quot;generalquot; VAR model where all the relevant variables (stock indices, consumer priced indices...

In this paper we develop a methodology for testing the validity of the expectations theory of the term structure and the uncovered interest parity within the framework provided by cointegration theory. For this purpose, we apply the multivariate cointegration technique suggested by Johansen...