Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the volatility of daily returns in a sample of developed and emerging equity markets at different time scales through wavelet decomposition. Such information is vital for international investors who have different time horizons for their...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the volatility of daily returns in a sample of developed and emerging equity markets at different time scales through wavelet decomposition. Such information is vital for international investors who have different time horizons for their...

This study contributes in bridging the dichotomy between economic growth and business cycle paradigms by providing dynamic characterisation of the link between economic growth, risk aversion, uncertainty and variability in industrial production, consumption and investment. In a system of...

This paper studies the relationship between international trade and output fluctuations. The authors find evidence that the business cycles of countries that are more open to international trade are more likely to by synchronized with the business cycles of their major trading partners. A...