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Financial Liberalization and Business Cycles: The Experience of Countries in the Baltics and Central Eastern Europe

Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004

This paper extends the work of Kaminsky and Schmukler (2003) to the Baltic and Central Eastern European future Member States of the European Union, to test if the same short-run increase in cyclical volatility arising from financial integration is observed in this specific sample of ?emerging...

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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

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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German bank lending during emerging market crises: A bank level analysis

Heid, Frank; Nestmann, Thorsten; Mauro, di; Weder, Beatrice - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004

This paper studies German bank lending during the Asian and Russian crises, using a bank level data set, which has been compiled from credit data at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Our aim is to gain more insight into the pattern of German bank lending during financial crises in emerging markets. We...

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Tail dependence of financial stocks and CDS markets: Evidence using copula methods and simulation-based inference

Silva, Paulo Pereira da; Rebelo, Paulo Tomaz; Afonso, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Using copula methods and simulation-based inference the authors address the association between the performance of the stocks of European banks and the CDS markets. Their analysis has three purposes: (i) analysing the dependence structure of the markets when extreme events occur; (ii) checking...

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Fixed-income portfolio management in crisis period: Expected tail loss (ETL) approach

Mili, Mehdi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The purpose of this study is to develop an efficient strategy for managing fixed-income portfolios in crisis periods. We use the volatility ratio model of Briere and Szafarz (2008) and the Expected Tail Loss (ETL) approach of Litzenberger and Modest (2008). Our methodology is applied to U.S. and...

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Systemic Risk in European Banking: Evidence from Bivariate GARCH Models

Schüler, Martin; Schröder, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate conditional correlations between European bank stock indices. These correlations are used as an indication for the interdependencies amongst the banking business in Europe and...

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Contagion Between European and US Banks: Evidence from Equity Prices

Fricke, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper employs an Extreme Value Theory framework to investigate the existence of contagion between European and US … finding market-based indicators in order to analyze the effects of crises and to quantify the risk of contagion. The Distance … coexceedances allows to interpret significant coefficients of foreign lagged coexceedances as contagion. The main finding is that …

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Investment opportunities in Central and Eastern European equity markets: an econometric examination of the risk-return relationships for western investors

Schröder, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...

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Macroeconomic Fundamentals, Price Discovery and Volatility Dynamics in Emerging Markets

International Monetary Fund - 2009

This study characterizes volatility dynamics in external emerging bond markets and examines how prices and volatility respond to news about macroeconomic fundamentals. As in mature bond markets, macroeconomic surprises in external emerging bond markets are found to a¤ect both conditional...

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