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Correlation Analysis of Financial Contagion: What One Should Know before Running a Test
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pericoli, Marcello; Sbracia, Massimo - Banca d'Italia - 2001
This paper presents a general test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis � a test … that can be interpreted as an extension of the normal correlation theorem. Contagion is defined as a structural break in … hypothesis of 'no contagion' can be rejected only if the variance of country specific shocks is set to levels that are not …
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Project Finance at the World Bank: An Overview of Policies and Instruments.
Benoit, P. - World Bank Group - 1996
Private and public sector sponsors of infrastructure, industrial and other commercial projects in developing countries are looking increasingly to the project finance structure to fund these operations. The World Bank has an array of financial instruments to support these projects. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780263
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World Bank Lending for Small Enterprises 1989-1993.
Webster, L.M.; Riopelle, R.; Chidzero, A.M. - World Bank Group - 1996
The main objective of this report is to evaluate World Bank lending for small enterprises between FY89 and FY93, including both small and medium enterprises and microenterprises. There has been a marked shift in the Bank's work in this area, and this review details the nature and content of this...
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A Primer on Financial Contagion
Pericoli, Marcello; Sbracia, Massimo - Banca d'Italia - 2001
shocks. We first review the different definitions and measures of contagion used in the literature. We then use a simple … multi-country asset pricing model to cast the main elements of the current debate on contagion and provide a stylized … classification, we survey the results obtained in the empirical literature on contagion. …
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Emerging market spreads in the recent financial turmoil
Ciarlone, Alessio; Piselli, Paolo; Trebeschi, Giorgio - Banca d'Italia - 2008
This work examines how much of the variation in emerging market economies' (EMEs) spreads can be ascribed to 'country-specific' factors rather than to 'common' factors, once the existence of an interaction between the state of macroeconomic fundamentals and global financial conditions is...
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Emerging Markets Spreads and Global Financial Conditions
Ciarlone, Alessio; Piselli, Paolo; Trebeschi, Giorgio - Banca d'Italia - 2007
In this article, we analyse how much of the reduction in emerging markets spreads can be ascribed to specific factors - linked to the improvement in the 'fundamentals' of a given country - rather than to common factors - linked to global liquidity conditions and agents� degree of risk...
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign...
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Globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets
2005
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