This paper examines the short- and long-term relationships between seven Central Eastern European (CEE) stock markets and two developed stock markets, namely the German market and the US market. Application of the Gonzalo and Granger (1995) methodology indicates that the examined stock markets...

In this paper we develop a comprehensive Vector Autoregression Model consisting of five variables; the stock market and price indices of pairs of countries, as well as their bilateral nominal exchange rate. Then, we show that under certain long-run restrictions, our approach encompasses a large...

This paper provides an analysis of regime switching in volatility and out-of-sample forecasting of the Cyprus Stock Exchange using daily data for the period 1996-2002. We first model volatility regime switching within a univariate Markov-Switching framework. Modelling stock returns within this...

This paper focuses on the sovereign crisis of the Euro debt crisis era, and we address the existence of the relationship of CDS and bond markets sovereign credit risk pricing for selected core and periphery EMU countries, during and after the 2009 EMU crisis. We study this relationship in...

This paper constitutes a different approach concerning the time varying risk premium for the stocks traded on the Athens Stock Exchange. The research methodology utilises two well known empirical findings; the time varying beta risk (eg. Merton (1973), Ng (1991), Fama, French (1988)), and the...

This paper analyzes the long-run dynamic relationship between black and official exchange rates for four Latin America namely, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico over the period 1971-1993. We apply Johansen's (1992a, 1995, 1997) recent methodology to the joint hypothesis of cointegration rank...

In a recent line of research the low interest-rate environment of the early to mid 2000s is viewed as an element that triggered increased risk-taking appetite of banks in search for yield. This paper uses approximately 18,000 annual observations on euro area banks over the period 2001-2008 and...