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The aim of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the determinants of volatility of real exchange … and monetary) can account for volatility of real exchange rates in emerging economies, with international financial …
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describe the most typical features of capital markets like volatility clustering, excess kurtosis and fat tails. As empirical … evidence shows asymmetry is also a prominent feature of stock market returns volatility. The reaction of risk if stock returns …
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assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily …
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In this paper we investigate the time-varying relationship between oil and natural gas in the UK. We develop a model … endogenously accounts for periods where oil and natural gas temporarily decouple due to gas specific pricing. We show that gas … the time of the year. Most of the reversion back to oil occurs in spring and summer when demand for gas to heating and …
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In this paper we estimate a dominant firm-competitive fringe model for the crude oil market using quarterly data on oil … indicate that world GDP is the main driver of long-run oil prices, however, supply (depletion) factors have become more …
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power if their country is oil-poor, but can stay in power by bribing the people if their country is oil-rich. Dictators from …
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When natural gas prices are subject to periodic decoupling from oil prices, for instance due to peak-load pricing … address these issues. Our regime switching model uses price data to infer whether pricing is oil-driven (integrated) or gas …-specific (decoupled). We find that UK natural gas (ICE) and oil (Brent) are cointegrated for the majority of the sample considered (1997 …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
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We analyze stock market reactions to announcements of political appointments from the private sector and corporate appointments of former government officials. Using unique data on corporate affiliations and announcements of all Senate-confirmed U.S. Defense Department appointees of six...
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Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether "overinvestment"...
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