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  • An empirical investigation of the volatility spillovers among agricultural commodity markets around news surprises 
    Nehme, Tamara (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2015)
    Purpose -- the objective of this thesis is to empirically test the level of interdependence across commodity markets in terms of return volatility spillover, namely, corn, wheat, soybeans and soybeans oil, and to uncover the impact of macroeconomic announcements on the measurement of integration among those commodities. This will help us to investigate the extent to which different agricultural commodities can be considered as an asset class and to determine whether portfolio diversification across different agricultural commodities can still lead to risk reduction benefits, in light of the ...
  • Impact of news announcements on stock market returns and volatility spillover across north America, European Union and Pacific Asia 
    Saliba, Karim Khalil (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020-02)
    Purpose – This thesis has two objectives. The first one is to test empirically the level of interdependence across major stock markets returns, namely, US, EU, and Asia in terms of return and volatility spillover. The second one is to evaluate the impact of news announcements on their stock market volatility. Design/methodology/approach – To model the volatility of the three above mentioned stock markets we apply a battery of univariate time series models from the GARCH family. Dickey Fuller unit root test is used in order to ensure that the three return series are stationary. The mean equation ...