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Volatility Spillovers between Equity and Currency Markets: Evidence from Major Latin American Countries

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  • Lucía de las Nieves Morales
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    This paper investigates the nature of volatility spillovers between stock returns and a number of exchange rates in six Latin American countries and one European economy in the 1998-2006 period. We divide our sample into sub periods, prior to and after th

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    Article provided by Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. in its journal Cuadernos de Economía-Latin American Journal of Economics.

    Volume (Year): 45 (2008)
    Issue (Month): 132 ()
    Pages: 185-215

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    Handle: RePEc:ioe:cuadec:v:45:y:2008:i:132:p:185-215

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    Keywords: Stock returns; exchange rates; integration; volatility spillovers; EGARCH modelling;

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