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Foreign bank entry into emerging economies : an empirical assessment of the determinants and risks predicted on German FDI data
Wezel, Torsten (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001901194
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Does co-financing by multilateral development banks increase "risky" direct investment in emerging markets?
Wezel, Torsten (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001901378
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Consumption smoothing across states and time : international insurance vs. foreign loans
Von Furstenberg, George M. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002137088
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Determinants of German foreign direct investment in Latin American and Asian emerging markets in the 1990s
Wezel, Torsten - 2003
emerging Asia tended to exploit low factor costs. Methodically, this paper uses the SUR estimation technique which allows for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432086
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Central bank intervention and exchange rate expectations : evidence from the daily DM/US-Dollar exchange rate
Reitz, Stefan - 2002
In this paper we propose a generalisation of the noise trader transmission mechanism to examine the impact of central bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are supposed to provide support to either chartist or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431685
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Political risk and export promotion : evidence from Germany
Moser, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2006
Political risk represents an important hidden transaction cost that reduces international trade. This paper investigates the claim that German public export credit guarantees (Hermes guarantees) mitigate this friction to trade flows and hence promote exports. We employ an empirical trade gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003388407
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Testing mean-variance efficiency in CAPM with possibly non-gaussian errors : an exact simulation-based approach
Beaulieu, Marie-Claude; Dufour, Jean-Marie; Khalaf, Lynda - 2003
In this paper we propose exact likelihood-based mean-variance efficiency tests of the market portfolio in the context of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), allowing for a wide class of error distributions which include normality as a special case. These tests are developed in the framework of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431982
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The stable long-run CAPM and the cross-section of expected returns
Kurz-Kim, Jeong-Ryeol - 2002
The capital-asset-pricing model (CAPM) is one of the most popular methods of financial market analysis. But, evidence of the poor empirical performance of the CAPM has accumulated in the literature. For example, based on their empirical results regarding the relation between market Beta and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431316
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Tail wags dog? : time-varying information shares in the Bund market
Upper, Christian; Werner, Thomas - 2002
The flow of information between futures and spot prices may vary over time, in particular during periods of stress. This article analyses the information content of the Bund Future and German government bonds during 1998 and test whether it is constant over time. The use of high-frequency data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431780
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The determinants of the euro-dollar exchange rate : synthetic fundamentals and a non-existing currency
Clostermann, Jörg; Schnatz, Bernd - 2000
At the beginning of 1999 the euro was launched as a common currency in 11 European countries. This paper addresses … empirically the medium to long-term forces driving the real euro-dollar exchange rate. Constructing a synthetic euro … determinants of the real euro-dollar exchange rate: the international real interest rate differential, relative prices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418743