Many emerging markets have experienced significant changes in government policies and capital market reforms. These changes may lead to changes in their return-generating processes. Based on Markov-switching models, this paper investigates whether there is more than one regime in the...

In this article, we test whether the structure of emerging market volatility has changed and assess the link between the structural changes in volatility behaviour and financial liberalization events. The opening of financial markets tends to generate outlying returns around the opening dates,...