This paper investigates volatility transmission patterns between the US and Eurozone stock markets differentiating between low and high volatility periods which tend to be related with international crisis. Our approach let us distinguish the spillover intensities between markets in calm and...

This paper studies the risk-return tradeoff in some of the main emerging stock markets in the world. Although previous studies on emerging markets were not able to show a positive and significant tradeoff, favorable evidence can be obtained if a non-linear framework between return and risk is...

This paper analyzes the influence of sudden changes in the unconditional volatility on the estimation and forecast of volatility and its impact on futures hedging strategies. We employ several multivariate GARCH models to estimate the optimal hedge ratios for the Spanish stock market including...