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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; 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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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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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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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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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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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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The Weekend Effect: A Trading Robot and Fractional Integration Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis; Plastun, Alex; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
technique for the estimation of the (fractional) integration parameter d. The results suggest that trading strategies aimed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783994
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Intraday Anomalies and Market Efficiency: A Trading Robot Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis; Plastun, Alex; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
One of the leading criticisms of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is the presence of so-called "anomalies", i.e. empirical evidence of abnormal behaviour of asset prices which is inconsistent with market efficiency. However, most studies do not take into account transaction costs. Their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784000