RT Report T1 Testing for volatility co-movement in bivariate stochastic volatility models A1 Chen, Jinghui A1 Kobayashi, Masahito A1 McAleer, Michael AB The paper considers the problem of volatility co-movement, namely as to whether two financial returns have perfectly correlated common volatility process, in the framework of multivariate stochastic volatility models and proposes a test which checks the volatility co-movement. The proposed test is a stochastic volatility version of the co-movement test proposed by Engle and Susmel (1993), who investigated whether international equity markets have volatility co-movement using the framework of the ARCH model.In empirical analysis we found that volatility co-movement exists among closelylinked stock markets and that volatility co-movement of the exchange rate markets tends to be found when the overall volatility level is low, which is contrasting to the often-cited finding in the financial contagion literature that financial returns have co-movement in the level during the financial crisis. PB Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico (ICAE) SN 2341-2356 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/22887 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/22887 LA eng DS Docta Complutense RD 26 abr 2025