Showing 1 - 8 of 8
additional factors, a commodity currency factor and a "world" factor based on trading volumes, fits currency basket correlations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479405
The modern notion of an international currency involves use in areas of international finance and trade that extend well beyond central banks' coffers. In addition to their important roles as foreign exchange reserves, international currencies are most frequently used to denominate corporate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481057
to providing new insights on contagion during crisis periods, we document patterns through time in world and regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469193
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472089
-switching model, allows us to describe expected returns in countries that are segmented from world capital markets in one part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474072
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455548
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455557
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437022