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The Global Crisis and Equity Market Contagion
Bekaert, Geert; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
We analyze the transmission of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 to 415 country-industry equity portfolios. We use a factor model to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings and residual correlations as indicative of contagion. While we find evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266597
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Oil prices, exchange rates and asset prices
Fratzscher, Marcel; Schneider, Daniel; Van Robays, Ine - European Central Bank - 2014
This paper takes a financial market perspective in examining the relationship between oil prices, the US dollar and asset prices, and it exploits the heteroskedasticity for the identification of causality in a multifactor model. It finds a bidirectional causality between the US dollar and oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067221
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Oil Prices, Exchange Rates and Asset Prices
Fratzscher, Marcel; Schneider, Daniel; Robays, Ine Van - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper takes a financial market perspective in examining the relationship between oil prices, the US dollar and asset prices, and it exploits the heteroskedasticity for the identification of causality in a multifactor model. It finds a bidirectional causality between the US dollar and oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659948
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One currency, one price? Euro changeover-related inflation in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Rõõm, Tairi - European Central Bank - 2014
This paper studies euro changeover-related inflation using disaggregated price level data. The difference …-in-differences approach is used and the control group for the treatment country, Estonia, is built from 12 euro area countries. The Nielsen … overall inflationary effect of euro adoption was modest, the effects were significantly different across various market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067230
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Has the Euro affected the choice of invoicing currency?
Ligthart, Jenny E.; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - European Central Bank - 2012
We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on the pattern of currency … invoicing after the introduction of the euro, whereas the home currency share of non-eurozone countries fell slightly. In … addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The substantial rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686764
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The mutating euro area crisis: is the balance between "sceptics" and "advocates" shifting?
Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - European Central Bank - 2013
The destructive potential of the sovereign debt crisis of the euro area has been slowly abating since last summer, but … euro area, and the other being an erosion of trust in the viability of the euro area itself. Such concerns have led to talk … the crisis or the future of the euro area. While the crisis is a traumatic wake-up call, it is also a catalyst for change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688313
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The mutating euro area crisis: is the balance between "sceptics" and "advocates" shifting?
Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - European Central Bank - 2013
The destructive potential of the sovereign debt crisis of the euro area has been slowly abating since last summer, but … euro area, and the other being an erosion of trust in the viability of the euro area itself. Such concerns have led to talk … the crisis or the future of the euro area. While the crisis is a traumatic wake-up call, it is also a catalyst for change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693504
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Short-Term Price Overreaction: Identification, Testing, Exploitation
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis; Plastun, Alex - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper examines short-term price reactions after one-day abnormal price changes and whether they create exploitable profit opportunities in various financial markets. A t-test confirms the presence of overreactions and also suggests that there is an “inertia anomaly”, i.e. after an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267904
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Long-Term Price Overreactions: Are Markets Inefficient?
Caporale, Guglielma Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis; Plastun, Alex - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
This paper examines long-term price overreactions in various financial markets (commodities, US stock market and FOREX). First, t-tests are carried out for overreactions as a statistical phenomenon. Second, a trading robot approach is applied to test the profitability of two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185761
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The Weekend Effect: An Exploitable Anomaly in the Ukrainian Stock Market?
Caporale, Guglielma Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis; Plastun, Alex - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
This paper provides some new empirical evidence on the weekend effect (one of the best known anomalies in financial markets) in Ukrainian futures prices. The analysis uses various statistical techniques (average analysis, Student's t-test, dummy variables, and fractional integration) to test for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194299