In this paper, we investigate whether oil risk is priced in selected emerging markets of the Middle East region—in particular, oil-producing countries. Given that these countries have maintained fixed exchange rates against the U.S. dollar, we are able to modify the multivariate GARCH...

This study examines whether the United States (US) macroeconomic news announcements affect volatilities of emerging stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region. For this purpose, the behavior of GARCH volatilities of nine major emerging markets (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan,...