This paper contributes to the literature on safe haven assets, analyzing gold and the Swiss Franc's defensive properties inside various global stocks portfolios. The analysis relies on monthly data extending over the last two decades. Drawing on Multivariate Garch DCC models, the hedging...

This paper focuses on three "safe haven" assets (gold, oil, and the Swiss Franc) and examines the impact of recent financial crises and some macroeconomic variables on their return co-movements during the last two decades. All financial crises produced significant increases in conditional...

This paper focuses on four major aggregate stock price indexes (SP 500, Stock Europe 600, Nikkei 225, Shanghai Composite) and two "safe-haven" assets (Gold, Swiss Franc), and explores their return co-movements during the last two decades. Significant contagion effects on stock markets are...

This paper extends Svensson (1994) ?simplest test?of in?ation target credibility inside a Bayesian econometric framework. We apply this approach to the initial years of the Eurosystem and obtain various estimates of ECB?s monetary policy credibility. Overall, our empirical evidence is robust to...

I show that accounting for a structural monetary policy shock associated with the 2007-2008 global financial crisis is crucial in order to obtain moderate empirical support for the Fisher effect in India since the liberalization of the early 90’s. Additional empirical evidence about the...

This paper assesses the sustainability of fiscal policy in India from 1950 to 2010 using multicointegration techniques. Starting from the seminal approach of Granger and Lee (1989), the analysis is extended through more powerful econometric methodologies, including several types of...