We investigate the role of bubbles on financial contagion using a set of developed economies. First, using the recursive flexible window right-tailed ADF-based procedure, we date stamp bubble periods in stock index series. Second, we capture contagion with a DCC multivariate GARCH framework. In...

This paper employs a GARCH-M model to test for the asymmetric effect of changes in individual and institutional investor sentiment on REIT industry returns and conditional volatility. Empirical results suggest that changes in institutional investor sentiment have a larger effect on REIT industry...

This paper is set to reconcile the existent conflicting empirical evidence on the effect of oil prices on stock prices. We estimate various nonlinear models where the response changes according to a first-order Markov switching process. More importantly, we model the transition probabilities...