5. Conclusions
In this study, we have employed the MGARCH with spatial effects approach to examine the daily returns of 15 national property market indices from January 3, 2002 to May 31, 2016, taking into account the structural breaks of each time series linked to the recent GFC from 2007 to 2009. A distinguishing feature of the proposed model is that it can simultaneously capture the spatial interactions and the dynamic conditional correlations compared with the traditional MGARCH models, like DCC–GARCH models. The main findings are presented as follows.