This paper focuses on four major aggregate stock price indexes (SP 500, Stock Europe 600, Nikkei 225, Shanghai Composite) and two “safe-haven” assets (Gold, Swiss Franc), explores their return co-movements during the last decades. Significant contagion effects markets are documented almost all financial crises; moreover, in line with recent literature, defensive role of gold Franc asset portfol...

In this paper we use data from 17 African nations in order to investigate the hypothesis that monetary union – represented in this case by the CFA Franc Zone – augments the extent of macroeconomic integration. The paper covers a number of dimensions of integration including the volume of bilateral trade, real exchange rate volatility and the magnitude of cross-country business cycle correlation.

Franc xois Mougeot, Stephen M. Redpath, and Stuart B. Piertney Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Hill of Brathens, Banchory, AB31 4BW, Scotland, UK, Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Cinegeticos (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain, and Natural Environment Research Council Molecular Genetics in Ecology Initiative, School of Biological Sciences, University of Ab...

http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Braunschweig, Holger, Demeshko, Serhiy, Ewing, William C, Krummenacher, Ivo, Macha, Bret B, Mattock, James D, Meyer, Franc, Mies, Jan, Schäfer, Marius and Vargas, Alfredo (2016) A bimetallic 1,1’-bis(boratabenzene) complex: unprecedented intramolecular metal-metal communication through a B-B bond. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55 (27). pp. 77087711. ISSN 1521-...