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Market Integration and Contagion

Bekaert, Geert - 2003

to providing new insights on contagion during crisis periods, we document patterns through time in world and regional …

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Dating the Integration of World Equity Markets

Bekaert, Geert - 1998

Measuring the integration of world capital markets is notoriously difficult. For example, regulatory changes which … equity market becomes financially integrated with world capital markets. We find endogenous break dates that are very … markets are on average larger and more liquid than before; returns are more volatile and more highly correlated with the world …

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Time-Varying World Market Integration

Bekaert, Geert - 1994

-switching model, allows us to describe expected returns in countries that are segmented from world capital markets in one part of the …

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The Global Rise of Corporate Saving

Chen, Peter - 2017

The sectoral composition of global saving changed dramatically during the last three decades. Whereas in the early 1980s most of global investment was funded by household saving, nowadays nearly two-thirds of global investment is funded by corporate saving. This shift in the sectoral composition...

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On the Global Financial Market Integration “Swoosh” and the Trilemma

Bekaert, Geert - 2017

We propose a simple measure of de facto financial market integration based on a factor model of monthly equity returns, which can be computed back to the first era of financial globalization for 17 countries. Global financial market integration follows a "swoosh" shape - i.e. high pre-1913,...

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China in Tax Havens

Clayton, Christopher; Coppola, Antonio; Santos, Amanda dos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document the rise of China in offshore capital markets. Chinese firms use global tax havens to access foreign capital both in equity and bond markets. In the last twenty years, China's presence went from raising a negligible amount of capital in these markets to accounting for more than half...

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Corporate Debt Structure with Home and International Currency Bias

Maggiori, Matteo; Neiman, Brent; Schreger, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We explore the consequences of global capital market segmentation by currency for the optimal currency composition of borrowing by firms. Global bond portfolios are driven by the currency of denomination of assets as investors prefer to lend in their home currency or the international currency,...

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