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Securitization of Mortgage Debt, Asset Prices and International Risk Sharing
Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - CESifo - 2009
We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption risk sharing: we find that countries with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406369
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Unlocking the Value of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2008
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094463
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Equity Fund Ownership and the Cross-Regional Diversification of Household Risk
Becker, Sascha O.; Hoffmann, Mathias - CESifo - 2008
We explore the link between portfolio home bias and consumption risk sharing among Italian regions using aggregated household level information on consumption, income and portfolio holdings. We propose to use data on equity fund ownership to proxy for regional home bias: equity funds are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405969
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Gold, Oil, and Stocks: Dynamic Correlations
Baruník, Jozef; Kocenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - CESifo - 2015
We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...
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Forecasting Exchange Rates: An Investor Perspective
Melvin, Michael; Prins, John; Shand, Duncan - CESifo - 2013
The popular scholarly exercise of evaluating exchange rate forecasting models relative to a random walk was stimulated by the well-cited Meese and Rogoff (1983) paper. Practitioners who construct quantitative models for trading exchange rates approach forecasting from a different perspective....
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Global and Regional Spillovers in Emerging Stock Markets: A Multivariate GARCH-in-mean Analysis
Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets. Tri-variate VAR GARCH(1,1)-in-mean models are estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs) in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596577
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Volatility Spillovers and Contagion from Mature to Emerging Stock Markets
Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines volatility spillovers from mature to emerging stock markets and tests for changes in the transmission mechanism—contagion—during turbulences in mature markets. Tri-variate GARCH-BEKK models of returns in global (mature), regional, and local markets are estimated for 41...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765747
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Has the Euro Affected the Choice of Invoicing Currency?
Ligthart, Jenny; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - CESifo - 2010
We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our … home currency invoicing after the introduction of the euro. In addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the … role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The econometric analysis shows a significant effect of euro introduction above …
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Equity Risk Premium and Regional Integration
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Teulon, Frédéric; Rault, … - CESifo - 2013
This article contributes to the literature on stock market integration by developing and estimating a capital asset pricing model with segmentation effects in order to assess stock market segmentation and its effects on risk premia at the regional level. We show that the estimated degrees of...
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Market Structure and the Cost of Capital
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; … - CESifo - 2013
We contribute to the finance literature in two main ways. First, we present a theoretical capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to price assets in different market structures. Second, we use our model to analyze whether when markets are partially segmented using the local or the global CAPM yields...
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