This paper employs a VAR-GARCH model to investigate the return links and volatility transmission between the S&P 500 and commodity price indices for energy, food, gold and beverages over the turbulent period from 2000-2011. Understanding the price behavior of commodity prices and the volatility...

Crisis shocks often lead to changes in the interdependence across stock markets, and thus risk assessment and management. This paper investigates the extent to which the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, which was triggered by the US subprime crisis in 2007, and the European debt crisis...