Purpose – This paper aims to empirically reexamine the dynamic changes in emerging market volatility around stock market liberalization. Design/methodology/approach – First, a bivariate GARCH-M model which counts for partial market integration is developed for modeling stock market...

This paper examines how much the volatility of sovereign bond markets in emerging Latin American countries is influenced by the volatility shocks to global and regional markets. After estimating the Generalised AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH)-based conditional volatility...

This study applies bootstrap panel causality, proposed by Kónya (2006), to investigate causal link be-tween political uncertainty and stock price for seven OECD countries over the monthly period of 2001.01 to 2013.04. This modeling approach allows us to examine both the cross-sectional...

Using the vector auto-regression (VAR) and the vector error-correction Models (VECM), this paper analyzes the short-term dynamics of the prices of CO2 emissions in response to changes in the prices of oil, coal, natural gas, electricity and carbon emission allowances. The results show that: (i)...

We investigate the dynamics of regional financial integration and its determinants in the context of an ICAPM accounting for the deviations from PPP as well as temporal variations in both regional and local sources of risk. Using data from four major countries of the Southeast Europe, our...

This paper employs a conditional version of the International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) to investigate the determinants of regional integration of stock markets in the Latin America over the period 1996-2008. This model allows for three sources of time-varying risks: common regional...

This paper employs a conditional version of the International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) to investigate the determinants of regional integration of stock markets in the Latin America over the period 1996-2008. This model allows for three sources of time-varying risks: common regional...

This article takes a time scale perspective to examine the interactions between crude oil and stock

In this paper we test for the existence of equity market contagion originating from the United States to OECD markets over the period from 01/01/1990 to 01/11/2010 characterized by several episodes of financial crises. Our empirical analysis relies on the use of an ICAPM model which has three...

This article attempts to examine whether the equity premium in the United States can be predicted from a comprehensive