This article examines the extent of contagion and interdependence across the East Asian equity markets since early 1990s and compares the ongoing crisis with earlier episodes. Using the forecast error variance decomposition from a vector autoregression, we derive return and volatility spillover...

This paper uses the variance-ratio-based multiple comparison test and Richardson-Smith's Wald test procedures to test for martingale property of daily exchange rates of seven major currencies vis-a-vis US dollar. To allow for the possibility that exchange rates are not governed by a single...