This paper examines the presence of a contagion effect between Chinese and G20 stock markets as well as its intensity over a recent period from 1st January 2013 to 7 April 2022. The empirical study is conducted using the time-varying copula approach. The obtained results show strong evidence of...

This paper studies inference for the realized Laplace transform (RLT) of volatility in a fixed-span setting using bootstrap methods. Specifically, since standard wild bootstrap procedures deliver inconsistent inference, we propose a local Gaussian (LG) bootstrap, establish its first-order...

The main objective of this study is to investigate tail risk connectedness among six major cryptocurrency markets and determine the extent to which investor sentiment, economic conditions, and economic uncertainty can predict tail risk interconnectedness. Combining the Conditional Autoregressive...

We offer retrospective and prospective assessments of the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness research program, combined with personal recollections of its development. Its centerpiece in many respects is Diebold and Yilmaz (2014), around which our discussion is organized.

We examined the dividend policy and financial performance nexus among listed firms in Ghana, having controlled for firm age, size, capital structure, governance, and financial sector clean-up. We employed the system dynamic general method of moments (GMM) estimation technique with data from 2015...

abstracts This article examines the causal relationship between stock indices and cryptocurrencies during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The econometric investigation covers the period from February 24, 2022 to April 12, 2023, and focuses on seven stock market indices (S&P 500, DAX, CAC40,...

Why did the real interest rate decline and the equity premium increase over the last 30 years? This paper assesses the role of uncertainty and credit market frictions. We quantify a model with heterogeneous households using data on asset prices and macro aggregates, as well as on households'...

State-contingent government debt has been proposed as a way to reduce costly debt crisis. However, markets for this type of debt remain very limited, for reasons that are not yet fully understood. This paper describes a new database covering state-contingent government debt issued between 1863...

Produktentwicklungsoptionen im Islamic Banking: Lösungsansätze, Probleme und Missverständnisse Immer mehr Banken weltweit bieten Sharî'a-konforme Produkte an. Bei der Entwicklung derartiger Produkte sind Faktoren der Form, des Bedarfs und der Banktechnik zu berücksichtigen. Faktoren der...

State-contingent government debt has been proposed as a way to reduce costly debt crisis. However, markets for this type of debt remain very limited, for reasons that are not yet fully understood. This paper describes a new database covering state-contingent government debt issued between 1863...