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At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention. Using minute-by-minute trading data for fifteen international stock exchanges, we present three key...
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mood-related pricing effects can materialize as sporting events unfold. We do this by using intra-day stock prices for a … pricing effects. During the soccer matches, stock prices in the country that eventually loses are lower by up to seven basis …
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This paper analyses the reforms in the architecture of EMU since the eruption of the euro crisis in 2010. We describe major weaknesses in the original set-up of EMU, such as lack of fiscal discipline, diverging financial cycles and competitiveness positions, and a lack of crisis instruments....
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This paper empirically examines the impact of capital flows on credit growth, credit excesses and banking crises using quarterly panel data from 43 advanced (AEs) and emerging market economies (EMEs). Regressions show that gross capital inflows precede credit growth and credit excesses. Both...
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forecasters. For a range of macroeconomic and financial variables, we compare constant and decreasing gain learning models to … simple, yet powerful benchmark models. We find that constant gain models provide a better fit for the expectations of … contrast, we find it difficult to beat the no-change benchmark using the adaptive learning models to forecast financial …
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that closed-economy models of pension reform miss quantitatively important effects of international capital mobility. …
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In the empirical literature, not much support is found for the uncovered interest parity. Especially with free floating exchange rates, the forward rate is a biased predictor of the future exchange rate. This phenomenon can both be explained by an absence of rational expectations or by risk...
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error correction models. Maximum likelihood estimators of the cointegrating vectors are constructed using iterated … cointegration rank across the individual vector error correction models, both with heterogeneous and homogeneous cointegrating … evidence for the validity of the monetary exchange rate model within a panel of vector error correction models for three major …
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We investigate the relationship between a country's domestic financial development and the (composition of its) net foreign asset position using a pooled mean group estimator and data for 51 countries during the period 1970-2007. The results show that financial development reduces a country's...
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This paper empirically investigates international equity investors' foreign portfolios before and during the financial crisis by estimating a gravity model for 22 source and 42 destination countries. The results show that international stock market diversification provides large gains during the...
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