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Burger, John D. - 2010

We assess the development of local currency bond markets in emerging market economies (EMEs). Supported by policies and laws that helped to improve macroeconomic stability and creditor rights, many local currency EME bond markets have grown substantially over the past decade and have also...

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Decomposing the U.S. External Returns Differential

Curcuru, Stephanie E. - 2009

We decompose the returns differential between U.S. portfolio claims and liabilities into the composition, return, and timing effects. Our most striking and robust finding is that foreigners exhibit poor timing when reallocating between bonds and equities within their U.S. portfolios. The poor...

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Sudden Flight and True Sudden Stops

Rothenberg, Alexander D. - 2006

We extend the sudden stops literature by allowing crisis episodes to be caused by either the retreat of global investors, as is assumed but not shown in the extant literature, or the sudden flight of local investors. We find that almost half of the previously defined sudden stops are actually...

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Local Currency Bond Markets

Burger, John D. - 2006

We analyze the development of 49 local bond markets. Our main finding is that policies and laws matter: Countries with stable inflation rates and strong creditor rights have more developed local bond markets and rely less on foreign-currency-denominated bonds. The results suggest that "original...

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Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the Home Bias

Kho, Bong-Chan - 2006

Despite the disappearance of formal barriers to international investment across countries, we find that the average home bias of U.S. investors towards the 46 countries with the largest equity markets did not fall from 1994 to 2004 when countries are equally weighted but fell when countries are...

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International Diversification at Home and Abroad

Cai, Fang - 2006

It is an established fact that investors favor the familiar--be it domestic securities or, within a country, the securities of nearby firms--and avoid investments that would provide the greatest diversification benefits. While we do not rule out familiarity as an important driver of portfolio...

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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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