We present a readily available monthly measure of the intensity of capital controls across 29 emerging market countries that is based on the degree of restrictions on foreign ownership of equities. The initial opening of a market as given by our measure corresponds well with the liberalization...

This paper studies the comparative attractiveness of public equity investments in the Polish (emerging) and in the U.S. (advanced) stock markets in the years 2000-2013. Through an original implementation strategy based on one- and multi-factor asset pricing models, we find that the potential for...

In the postglobal financial crisis period, the central banks of the advanced economies pursued unconventional monetary policies, such as the United States (US) Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE). Those policies and their unwinding may significantly affect cross-border capital flows and...