type="main" xml:lang="en" <p>This paper considers the econometric estimation of a two-factor model of the short-term interest rate. We develop a procedure for the time series estimation of its parameters, based on recently developed Gaussian estimation methods which are extended to handle...</p>

In this article, we provide empirical evidence of the recent financial crisis over 2007--2009 using discrete time multivariate GARCH (MGARCH) models and continuous time modelling approaches. Using daily data for 14 countries, we investigate the return and volatility spillovers among the US and...