In this paper, we examine the international transmission of US monetary policy shocks across euro area and Asian countries by using a FAVAR model. We first examine all possible channels through which a policy shock is transmitted to each country. In general the transmission of the shock hides...

Terrorist incidents exert a negative, albeit usually short-lived, impact on markets and equity returns. Given the integration of global financial markets, mega-terrorist events also have a high contagion potential with their shock waves being transmitted across countries and markets. This paper...

By adopting a dynamic ARDL transformation, we investigate the cointegrating relationship of the government bond debt yields, driven by the common money market factors in Economic Monetary Union. The findings indicate that the introduction of the common currency has not a uniform effect on the...