Many aspects of financial markets merit monitoring in risk management and portfolio allocation contexts, including (and perhaps especially) in contexts of interest to central banks. Much recent attention, for example, has been devoted to measuring and forecasting return volatilities and correlations, ...

Commodities and commodity markets play a central role in the global economy. Hence commodity market developments are widely chronicled and followed. Commodities are a key input to all countries’ production and a key output of many emerging economies so fluctuations in commodity prices may contribute ...

Utilizando un método reciente para medir los efectos derrame (spillovers) en los mercados financieros, ofrecemos un análisis empírico de los derrames de retornos y volatilidades en cinco mercados de valores del continente americano: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México y EE.UU. Los resultados indican que ...