This paper tests whether contagion can occur at the industry level, in particular the banking industry. In this paper ‘contagion’ is defined as significant spillovers of country-specific idiosyncratic shocks during the crisis after economic fundamentals or systematic risks have been...

This paper examines the validity of the risk premia hypothesis in explaining deviations from Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) and the role of deviations from Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in the pricing of foreign exchange rates and equity securities in five Asia–Pacific countries and the US....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on how 1999–2001 dot-com crisis and 2007–2009 subprime crisis affect the gains from international diversification from the perspective of US investors. Design/methodology/approach – A conditional international CAPM with...