This paper investigates financial contagion in a multivariate time-varying asymmetric framework, focusing on four emerging equity markets, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) and two developed markets (U.S. and U.K.), during five recent financial crises. Specifically, both a multivariate...

This paper investigates whether cointegration and causality relationships exist among the stock markets of the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) during the period 2005-2011. To accomplish our objective, we divide the sample period into two sub-periods (1 February...