Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there exist multiple bubbles in the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) stock markets. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the authors apply the generalized sup Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, a new recursive test...

While previous studies focus on linear unit root test to study the convergence of carbon price in some developed countries and the results might be biased due to the lower power of these linear unit root tests. China provides an interesting arena to investigate its carbon price convergence due...

This study examines whether the long-run purchasing power parity (PPP) holds in transition economies (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Russia) using monthly data over the 1995 - 2011 period. We apply a recently introduced panel stationary test, which...