Con este documento se pretende evaluar y preveer los efectos de la economía de EE.UU. y de la economía mundial sobre la macroeconomía española. Un análisis estocástico multivariante del vector formado por el Producto Interior Bruto español (PIBE), el Producto Nacional Bruto de Estados...

The two-country monetary model has become a fundamental tool for explaining the behavior of the exchange rate. However, the popularity of this approach is not justified by its empirical support. One of the reasons for the empirical “failure” of exchange rate models could be the econometric...

Most dynamic equilibrium models of exchange rate are not able to generate monthly time series with the typical properties of actual exchange rate. If the exogenous endowments in an equilibrium exchange rate model contain seasonal variations, then the exchange rate will as well. In this paper, we...

This paper has been motivated by recent work of Treadway et al.(1986) about monetary growth effects on the spanish economy. Treadway et al. proposed a theoretical framework to deal with monetary phenomena. We employ this theoretical framework to elaborate, with yearly data (1953-1983), a simple...

En este artículo y con datos anuales correspondientes al periodo 1953-1983, se investigan las relaciones entre el Producto Interior Bruto español (PIBE), el Producto Nacional Bruto de Estados Unidos (PNBU) y el Producto Nacional Bruto de un conjunto de Países Industrializados (PNBI). Dada la...

This paper features an analysis of the e_ectiveness of a range of portfolio diversification strategies as applied to a set of 17 years of monthly hedge fund index returns on a set of ten market indices representing 13 major hedge fund categories, as compiled by the EDHEC Risk Institute. The...

One of the fastest growing areas in empirical finance, and also one of the least rigorously analyzed, especially from a financial econometrics perspective, is the econometric analysis of financial derivatives, which are typically complicated and difficult to analyze. The purpose of this special...

It is common practice to evaluate fixed-event forecast revisions in macroeconomics by regressing current forecast revisions on one-period lagged forecast revisions. Under weak-form (forecast) efficiency, the correlation between the current and one-period lagged revisions should be zero. The...

This paper features an analysis of volatility spillover effects from Australia's major trading partners, namely, China, Japan, Korea and the United States, for a period running from 12th September 2002 to 9th September 2012. This captures the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). These...

The paper uses monthly data on financial stock index returns, tourism stock sub-index returns, effective exchange rate returns and interest rate differences from April 2005 – August 2013 for Taiwan that applies Chang’s (2014) novel approach for constructing a tourism financial indicator,...