This article investigates comovement and contagions in the commodities markets. We examine the comovement by analyzing the unconditional correlation coefficients. We document that commodities tend to partially integrate. We perform contagion tests by identifying coexceedances and estimating...

Building on Vinhas de Souza (and Vinhas de Souza and Tudela), this chapter briefly describes the historical process of financial liberalization and integration of Baltic and Central European Countries (BCECs) since the 1990s. It investigates the hypotheses that the type of financial integration...

Charakteristisch für Emerging Markets sind hohe Aktienrenditen und eine geringe Korrelation mit den Aktienrenditen der entwickelten Märkte, so dass durch Diversifikation der Investmentanlagen eine Verringerung des Portfoliorisikos erreicht werden kann. Die zunehmende Integration...