This article compares the stability of interrelationships among nine national equity markets by employing basket currencies versus individual base currencies to measure rates of return. We show that the average correlations of equity indexes based on basket currencies are much lower than the...

We apply directed graphs to an empirical analysis of traffic occupant fatalities based on a model by Crandall. In this paper, we use Crandall's data on US traffic fatalities for the period 1947-81 and extend the sample to include 1982-93. Based on the 1947-81 annual data, directed graph...

<Para ID="Par1">The degree to which the law of one price holds (integration) along with determining each individual markets’ role in price discovery is examined for 11 major natural gas markets, six from the USA and five from Canada. Deregulation, technological advances, and trade agreements have opened the...</para>

The authors estimate the market impact of media coverage related to the name “swine flu,” relabeled subsequently as “2009 H1N1 flu,” on the future prices of lean hogs, live cattle, corn, and soybeans. They then quantified the revenue loss, employing the subset vector autoregressive...

Dynamic relationships among weekly retail prices for milk from three regions of Kyrgyzstan are studied in an error correction framework. Observational data over the period January 1995 - May 1999 are used in the analysis. Results show that prices from the oblasts of Issyk-Kul and Djalal-Abad...

This article considers methods of cointegration testing to construct a model of Zimbabwe 's corn sector. Corn production, sales of corn to the government, the price of corn, and price of beef are linked together in one long-run equilibrium (cointegrating) relation. Only the price of beef is not...

The dynamic relationship between the prices of refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup is investigated using cointegration econometrics. The analysis is based on observational data, and although results indicate cointegration between 1984 and 1991 for the most part, alternative explanations...