This paper investigates per capita real income convergence in the European Union (EU) within a non-linear latent factor framework. We establish a set of novel stylized facts on economic convergence between 1970 and 2010 in light of the institutional changes and macroeconomic adjustment processes...

This paper extends the canonical model of contagion proposed by Pesaran and Pick [Pesaran, M.H., Pick, A., 2007. Econometric issues in the analysis of contagion. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 1245–1277] in order to test for contagion of credit events in Euro area sovereign bond...

This chapter sheds new light on the linkages between stock market fluctuations and business cycles in Asia. It shows that at cyclical frequencies stock markets lead business cycles by six months on average. China, Korea, and Taiwan constitute exceptions, as their real and stock market cycles are...