In this paper, we use the skewed t copula with a DCC (Dynamic Conditional Correlation) model to capture the time-varying asymmetric tail dependence among MSCI US, Europe and Emerging markets. The empirical results show that it is important to take account of asymmetric tail dependence when...

We analyze volatility contagion between the U.S. and Chinese stock markets and international capital markets. The volatility is modeled using: GARCH, TARCH, EGARCH, APARCH, IGARCH, FIGARCH, ACGARCH and GAS models under Gaussian, GED and t-Student distributions. 21,000 intraday observations of...