correlations with developed countries' equity markets significantly reduces the unconditional portfolio risk of a world investor …

We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …

the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …

future? The usual risk factors are unable to explain the time-series variation in excess returns. In addition, our evidence … of futures prices. We find that the tactical strategies provide higher average returns and lower risk than a long …

We explore the different factors that drive expected returns in world markets. Our research offers two innovations …. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … currency risk factors. Second, when combining the currency factors with a group of economic factors, we measure the incremental …

Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and …

We introduce a new, market-based and forward looking measure of political risk derived from the yield spread between a … factors: global economic conditions, country-specific economic factors, liquidity of the country's bond, and political risk …. We then extract the part of the sovereign spread that is due to political risk, making use of political risk ratings. In …