International Financial Markets

Julien Chevallier is Full Professor of Economics at the University Paris 8 (LED), France. He undertakes research and lectures on empirical finance, applied time-series econometrics, and commodity markets. He has published articles in leading refereed journals.Stephane Goutte is a Maître de Conférences-HDR of Financial Mathematics at University Paris 8, France and Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at University of Luxembourg. He is also a researcher at the Chair European Electricity Markets of Paris Dauphine PSL University. David Guerreiro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University Paris 8 (LED), France. His fields of research are International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Meta-Analysis and he has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.Sophie Saglio is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University Paris 8 (LED), France. Her research focuses on international economics and finance and she has published in various peer-reviewed journals.Bilel Sanhaji is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University Paris 8 (LED), France. His main research focuses on nonlinear time series econometrics and modelling volatility. He has published theoretical and applied research papers in various peer-reviewed journal.

• Introduction. Part 1: Commodities Finance and Market Performance. 1. Forecasting Price Distributions in the German Electricity Market. 2. Forecasting crude oil price dynamics based on investor attention: Evidence from the ARMAX and ARMAX-GARCH models. Part 2: International Economics and Finance. 3. Contagion Dynamics on Financial Networks. 4. Quantifying Informational Linkages in a Global Model of Currency Spot Markets. 5. Smooth break, non-linearity, and speculative bubbles: New evidence of the G7 stock markets. 6. The Continuum-GMM Estimation: Theory and Application. 7. Seasonal long memory in intra-day volatility and trading volume of Dow Jones stocks. Part 3: Meta-Analysis in Economics and Finance. 8. The Disinflation Effect of Central Bank Independence: A Comparative Meta-analysis between Transition Economies and the Rest of the World. 9. Is there really causality between inflation and inflation uncertainty?. 10. More R&D with tax incentives? A meta-analysis. 11. Political Cycles: What Does a Meta-Analysis Reveal about?. 12. Market Efficiency in Asian and Australasian Stock Markets: A Fresh Look at the Evidence. Index