This paper examines the volatility spillover effects among Mediterranean equity markets and investigates the effects of the 2007 financial crisis. German, Greek, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese markets are investigated. German market is used as a benchmark market. We employ a multivariate...

This paper explores the evolution of European stock markets integration with the US stock market, after the formation of European Monetary Union (EMU). To this end, we employ a dynamic version of international CAPM in the absence of purchasing power parity. The conditional covariance matrix of...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the contagion effects of stock and FX markets for the USA and European monetary union (EMU) during the US subprime crisis of 2007-2009.Design/methodology/approach: The data sample is daily comprising a weighted Morgan Stanley Capital Index (MSCI) for US...