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Economic integration and the exchange rate regime: How damaging are currency crises?

Weber, Axel A.; Beck, Günter W. - Center for Financial Studies - 2003

We use consumer price data for 205 cities/regions in 21 countries to study PPP deviations before, during and after the major currency crises of the 1990s. We combine data from industrialized nations in North America (Unites States, Canada and Mexico), Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal),...

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Did fair-value accounting contribute to the financial crisis?

Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009

The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...

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Measuring financial asset return and volatilty spillovers, with application to global equity markets

Diebold, Francis X.; Yilmaz, Kamil - Center for Financial Studies - 2008

We provide a simple and intuitive measure of interdependence of asset returns and/or volatilities. In particular, we formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates study of both non-crisis and crisis episodes,...

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The dynamics of spillover effects during the European sovereign debt turmoil

Alter, Adrian; Beyer, Andreas - Center for Financial Studies - 2012

transmission from or to sovereigns and banks are aggregated as a Contagion index (CI). This index is disentangled into four …) vice-versa. We highlight the impact of policy-related events along the different components of the contagion index. The …

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Measuring financial asset return and volatility spillovers, with application to global equity markets

Diebold, Francis X.; Yilmaz, Kamil - Center for Financial Studies - 2007

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Financial contagion: Spillovers through banking centers

Van Rijckeghem, Caroline; Weder, Beatrice - Center for Financial Studies - 1999

This paper presents evidence that spillovers through shifts in bank lending can help explain the pattern of contagion … incidence of a currency crisis. In the Russian crisis, the common bank lender helps to predict the incidence of contagion but … may be more important in explaining contagion than similarities in macro-economic fundamentals and even than trade …

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Risk aversion under preference uncertainty

Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Siegmann, Arjen - Center for Financial Studies - 2010

We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility functions. We illustrate the consequences of this...

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The 2011 European short sale ban on financial stocks: A cure or a curse?

Félix, Luiz; Kräussl, Roman; Stork, Philip - Center for Financial Studies - 2013

Did the August 2011 European short sale bans on financial stocks accomplish their goals? In order to answer this question, we use stock options' implied volatility skews to proxy for investors' risk aversion. We find that on ban announcement day, risk aversion levels rose for all stocks but more...

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On the Relation between Robust and Bayesian Decision Making

Adam, Klaus - Center for Financial Studies - 2003

This paper compares Bayesian decision theory with robust decision theory where the decision maker optimizes with respect to the worst state realization. For a class of robust decision problems there exists a sequence of Bayesian decision problems whose solution converges towards the robust...

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Manipulating reliance on intuition reduces risk and ambiguity aversion

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Guiso, Luigi; Jappelli, Tullio - Center for Financial Studies - 2013

Prior research suggests that those who rely on intuition rather than effortful reasoning when making decisions are less averse to risk and ambiguity. The evidence is largely correlational, however, leaving open the question of the direction of causality. In this paper, we present experimental...

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