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The determinants of cross-border bank flows to emerging markets : new empirical evidence on the spread of financial crises

Herrmann, Sabine; Mihaljek, Dubravko - 2010

This paper studies the nature of spillover effects in bank lending flows from advanced to the emerging market economies and identifies specific channels through which such effects occur. Based on a gravity model we examine a panel data set on cross-border bank flows from 17 advanced to 28...

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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...

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On the nonlinear influence of Reserve Bank of Australia interventions on exchange rates

Reitz, Stefan; Ruelke, Jan-Christoph; Taylor, Mark P. - 2010

This paper applies nonlinear econometric models to empirically investigate the effectiveness of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) exchange rate policy. First, results from a STARTZ model are provided revealing nonlinear mean reversion of the Australian dollar exchange rate in the sense that...

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Exchange rate dynamics, expectations, and monetary policy

Chen, Qianying - 2011

This paper re-investigates the implications of monetary policy rules on changes in exchange rate, in a risk-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy...

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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...

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Testing for structural breaks in dynamic factor models

Breitung, Jörg; Eickmeier, Sandra - 2009

structural breaks in the factor loadings for the specification and estimation of factor models based on principal components and … correlated. We also apply the suggested test procedure to a US dataset used in Stock and Watson (2005) and a euro-area dataset …

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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...

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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 …

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Currency blocs in the 21st century

Fischer, Christoph - 2011

economic variables determine a given country’s currency bloc affiliation. The dollar bloc differs from the euro bloc in that …

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How safe was the "safe haven"? : financial market liquidity during the 1998 turbulences

Upper, Christian - 2000

The turbulences in the international financial markets during the summer and autumn of 1998 put the price formation and liquidity provision mechanism in many markets under severe strain. As part of the large-scale portfolio rebalancing that took place, investors shifted a large part of their...

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