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We examine trade credit links between firms as a channel of international return comovement. We model firms in different countries connected by trade credit links in segmented stock markets with asymmetrically informed investors. The model predicts that the cross-serial correlation of country...
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This paper estimates a two-country model with a global bank, using US and Euro Area (EA) data, and Bayesian methods …
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This paper presents new stylized facts on the distribution of the home bias at the fund level. We find (i) a large heterogeneity in the degree of home bias across mutual funds; (ii) a positive correlation between the size of funds and home bias; and (iii) a positive correlation between the size...
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The carry trade is the investment strategy of going long in high-yield target currencies and short in low-yield funding currencies. Recently, this naive trade has seen very high returns for long periods, followed by large crash losses after large depreciations of the target currencies. Based on...
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This paper examines the exchange rate predictability stemming from the equilibrium model of international financial adjustment developed by Gourinchas and Rey (2007). Using predictive variables that measure cyclical external imbalances for country pairs, we assess the ability of this model to...
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The creation of Europe’s ‘new’ stock markets represents a major experiment in market design with important implications for the ability to support innovative, fast-growing companies. We evaluate the success of these markets based on a large number of measures of firm performance and...
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This paper investigates whether different systems of financial market organization influence the way in which newly created stock markets become more (weak-form) efficient. The author conducts a detailed comparative analysis of stocks listed on the Budapest and Warsaw Stock Exchanges, 1991-98,...
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This Paper focuses on the pass-through of exchange rate changes into the prices of imports made by euro area countries … industry-specific rates of pass-through across and within countries for all euro members. In the short run, pass-through rates …-through rates across industries and countries can be rejected. Differences exist across euro area countries in the degree that a …
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our analysis on the effect of the euro for the determinants of bond trade, equity and banking assets. With the help of a … theoretical model, we attempt to disentangle the different effects that the euro may have had on asset holdings for both euro zone … countries and countries outside of the euro zone such as Sweden. We find evidence that the euro has implied 1) a unilateral …
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This Paper considers how the European Union, and more specifically the euro area, can contribute to international … internal stability in the euro area and has promoted a dynamic development of capital markets. But in some respects, monetary … positions on exchange-rate policy, the international financial architecture, and the euro as an international currency. …
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