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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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Fundamental Determinants of National Equity Market Returns : A Perspective on Conditional Asset Pricing

Ferson, Wayne E. - 1996

This paper provides a global asset pricing perspective on the debate over the relation between predetermined attributes of common stocks, such as ratios of price-to-book-value, cash-flow, earnings, and other variables to the future returns. Some argue that such variables may be used to find...

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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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What Determines Expected International Asset Returns?

Harvey, Campbell R. - 1994

expected return on the world market portfolio. However, the inclusion of this premium alone is not sufficient to explain the …

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Economic, Financial, and Fundamental Global Risk In and Out of the EMU

Ferson, Wayne E. - 1999

We explore the different factors that drive expected returns in world markets. Our research offers two innovations …

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The Dynamics of Emerging Market Equity Flows

Bekaert, Geert - 1999

We study the interrelationship between capital flows, returns, dividend yields and world interest rates in 20 emerging …

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International Differences in Fiscal Policy During the Global Crisis

Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2010

We examine the cross-country dispersion in fiscal outcomes during 2007-2009. In principle, international differences in fiscal policy may be related to differences in optimal fiscal positions, funding constraints, political economy factors and fiscal control problems. We find that the decline in...

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The Real Effects of Financial Constraints : Evidence from a Financial Crisis

Campello, Murillo - 2009

We survey 1,050 CFOs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to assess whether their firms are credit constrained during the global credit crisis of 2008. We study whether corporate spending plans differ conditional on this measure of financial constraint. Our evidence indicates that constrained firms...

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The Long or Short of it : Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets

Lane, Philip R. - 2009

A major focus of the recent literature on the determination of optimal portfolios in open-economy macroeconomic models has been on the role of currency movements in determining portfolio returns that may hedge various macroeconomic shocks. However, there is little empirical evidence on the...

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