This paper extends the gravity model to financial markets by examining how distance and bilateral linkages influence stock market correlations between the United States and selected emerging economies. To this end, the Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator is used to account for...

Guaranteed annuity options (GAOs) allow policyholders to convert accumulated funds into life annuities at maturity at a guaranteed minimum rate. Thus, insurers are exposed to both investment and longevity risks. Accurate valuation of these long-term, survival-contingent contracts is essential...

In this paper, we present an approach to relate typological measures of language complexity (based on the grammars of different languages) with empirical measures of that complexity (based on actual texts). It is known as the "structure-conduct-performance paradigm", and we have taken it from...

A dynamic modelling for heavy-tailed cylindrical time series is developed by combining score-driven models with a generalised Pareto-type cylindrical distribution. The proposed specification extends existing cylindrical models by allowing location, scale, concentration, and crucially, the tail...

We investigate the impact of structural shocks on the joint distribution of future real GDP growth and inflation in the euro area. We model the conditional mean of these variables, along with selected financial indicators, using a VAR and perform quantile regressions on the VAR residuals to...

Exogenous shocks can affect equity markets by changing volatility and cross-market co-movement. This study examines how two U.S.-centred events, treated as different shock types, influence time-varying conditional correlations between the U.S. stock market and other G7 markets. The uncertainty...