Tunisia has been undertaking reforms of its financial sector as part of broader macroeconomic adjustment program and structural reform since 1987. We aim, in this paper, at studying the reform consequences through the money demand function analysis. It is shown that this function was stable,...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the volatility relationship that exists between emerging and developed markets in normal times and in times of financial crises. The Vector Autoregressive methodology and the Bai and Perron (2003a,b)’s technique are used. The paper results lead to very...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the volatility relationship that exists between emerging and developed markets in normal times and in times of financial crises. The Vector Autoregressive methodology and the Bai and Perron (2003a,b)’s technique are used. The paper results lead to very...

This paper aims at comparing the effects of financial liberalization on emerging stock markets' volatility at normal times to the ones in periods of financial crises. To this purpose, a treatment effects model for 13 emerging economies is estimated over January 1986 to December 2008. Three types...

This article aims to determine the impact of financial liberalization on the informational efficiency in emerging stock markets. For this purpose, we estimate a time-varying parameter model combined with structural change technique for 13 emerging economies from January 1986 to December 2008....