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Modelling of conditional volatilities and correlations across asset returns is an integral part of portfolio decision making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations across markets, a trend which has been accentuated...
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of Euro area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest rate setting behavior in response to …
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of Euro-area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest-rate setting behavior in response to … explained by a significant increase in the frictions that the banks' business is subject to. -- Euro Area ; global financial …
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This paper employs a panel vector autoregressive model for the member countries of the Euro Area to explore the role of … crisis. However, concerning both, the timing and the magnitude of the shocks our results also indicate that the Euro Area was … characterized by a considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity. -- Euro Area ; panel vector autoregressive model ; sign …
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This paper presents a canonical, econometric model of contagion and investigates the conditions under which contagion can be distinguished from inter-dependence. In a two-country (market) setup it is shown that for a range of fundamentals the solution is not unique, and for sufficiently large...
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This paper proposes a new double-question survey method that elicits information about how individuals.subjective belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets of questions, one that asks about his/her belief regarding...
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empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area countries that negative uncertainty shocks, while boosting economic …
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The importance of units with pervasive impacts on a large number of other units in a network has become increasingly recognized in the literature. In this paper we propose a new method to detect such influential or dominant units by basing our analysis on unit-specific residual error variances...
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direct forecasts when estimation error is a first-order concern, i.e. in small samples and for long forecast horizons …
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Present value calculations require predictions of cash flows both at near and distant future points in time. Such predictions are generally surrounded by considerable uncertainty and may critically depend on assumptions about parameter values as well as the form and stability of the data...
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