This paper examines the symmetry of correlation of sovereign bond yield dynamics between eight Eurozone countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) in the period from January 3,2000 to August 31, 2011. Asymmetry of correlation is investigated pair-wise by...

Common negative extreme variations in returns are prevalent in international equity markets. This has been widely documented with statistical tools such as exceedance correlation, extreme value theory, and Gaussian bivariate GARCH or regime-switching models. We point to limits of these tools to...

We consider impulse response functions to study the impact of both return and volatility on correlation between international equity markets. Using data on US (as the reference country), Canada, UK and France equity indices, empirical evidence shows that without taking into account the effect of...