An asymmetric conditional mean returns model describing co-movements of three major European stock markets with the U.S. stock market is estimated. Multivariate conditional heteroskedasticity is captured by a VAR(p)-MGARCH(p,q)-BEKK parameterization. Conditional Sharpe ratios from alternative...

Using a model that accommodates asymmetric adjustments of output growth to changes in growth of government spending, the effects of aggregate and disaggregate government spending variables on output growth are examined. Both cross-section and panel regression estimations are conducted....

A new test specification of Wagner's Law of Public Expenditure has been formulated. The aim is to disentangle the effects of accelerating and decelerating economic growth on growth in government expenditure. Two alternative proxies for the state of the economy are experimented with. The first...

Intertemporal stationarity tests of the variance-covariance matrix of monthly returns on seven international equity indices are conducted over the most recent period. Pairwise covariances are then decomposed into their component statistics for further examination of the source(s) of stationarity...