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The Emergence of the Euro as an International Currency

Alogoskoufis, George; Portes, Richard; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

*The European Union will enter Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The development of euro … financial markets and thickness externalities in the use of the euro as means of payment will be the major factors determining … the importance of the euro as an international currency. As euro securities markets become deeper and more liquid and …

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Financial Integration and Asset Returns

Martin, Philippe; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The paper investigates the impact of financial integration on asset return, risk diversification and breadth of … financial terms of trade. When we endogenise financial market location, we find that financial integration benefits the largest … economy of the integrated area. Only when transaction costs become very small does financial integration lead to relocation of …

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Financial Super-Markets: Size Matters for Asset Trade

Martin, Philippe; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The paper presents a two-country macroeconomic model in which the number of financial assets is endogenous. Imperfect substitutability of assets and international transaction costs give a comparative advantage to large markets, because of demand effects. Agents have more incentives to undertake...

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From World Banker to World Venture Capitalist: US External Adjustment and The Exorbitant Privilege

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Does the centre country of the International Monetary System enjoy an 'exorbitant privilege' that significantly weakens its external constraint as has been asserted in some European quarters? Using a newly constructed dataset, we perform a detailed analysis of the historical evolution of US...

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The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows

Portes, Richard; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We apply a new approach to a new panel data set on bilateral gross cross-border equity flows between 14 countries, 1989-96. The remarkably good results have strong implications for theories of asset trade. We find that the geography of information heavily determines the pattern of international...

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Sovereign CDS and Bond Pricing Dynamics in the Euro-area

Palladini, Giorgia; Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

six Euro-area countries over the period 2004-2011. As a first step, the supposed non stationarity of the two series is …

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Finance, Trade and Development: Issues in Transatlantic Cooperation

Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

Despite current economic problems and conflicts - or perhaps as their cause - the concordance of policies among the major industrial countries in the first half of the 1980s in dealing with finance, trade and development is at a peak. This has been the result not so much of cooperation or...

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Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope

Hau, Harald; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The dramatic increase in gross stock of foreign assets and liability has revived interest in the portfolio balance theory of international investment. Evidence on the validity of this theory has always been scarce and inconclusive. The current paper derives testable empirical implications from...

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Can Portfolio Rebalancing Explain the Dynamics of Equity Returns, Equity Flows and Exchange Rates?

Hau, Harald; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We explore whether the pattern of international equity returns, equity portfolio flows, and exchange rate returns are consistent with the hypothesis that (unhedged) global investors rebalance their portfolio in order to limit their exchange rate exposure when there are (1) relative equity...

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External Adjustment, Global Imbalances and Valuation Effects

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We provide an overview of the recent developments of the literature on the determinants of long term capital flows, global imbalances and valuation effects. We present the main stylized facts of the new international financial landscape in which external balance sheets of countries have grown in...

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