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The Global Financial Cycle and Capital Flow Episodes : A Wobbly Link?
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2019
We add to the literature on the influence of the global financial cycle (GFC) and gyrations in capital flows. First, we build a new measure of the GFC based on a structural factor approach, which incorporates theoretical priors in its definition. This measure can also be decomposed in a...
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Mis-Allocation within Firms : Internal Finance and International Trade
Doerr, Sebastian; Marin, Dalia; Suverato, Davide; … - 2021
This paper develops a novel theory of capital mis-allocation within firms that stems from managers’ empire building and informational frictions within the organization. Introducing an internal capital market into a two-factor model of multi-segment firms, we show that international competition...
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The Financial Channel of the Exchange Rate and Global Trade
Ma, Sai; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2023
This paper provides evidence that the U.S. dollar affects countries’ exports through the financial channel of the exchange rate (Bruno and Shin (2015)). Using global data on trade between countries whose currency is not the U.S. dollar, it documents a positive relationship between the dollar...
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Have Capital Market Anomalies Worldwide Attenuated in the Recent Era of High Liquidity and Trading Activity?
Auer, Benjamin R. - 2018
We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has significantly decreased exploitable returns of capital market anomalies in the US. Using a novel international dataset of arbitrage portfolio returns for four well-known...
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Great Volatility and Great Moderation
Grazzini, Jakob - 2019
We investigate the sources of the great changes in GDP volatility observed from 1966 to 2000. We develop a general …-sectoral linkages and households' behavior to aggregate volatility. Our results show that changes in sectoral volatility played an … important role in shaping volatility at the aggregate level. Moreover, asymmetries in the economic structure sometimes had an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892302
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Debt Shifting and Transfer Pricing in a Volatile World
Comincioli, Nicola; Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - 2021
In this article we introduce a stochastic model with a multinational company (MNC) that exploits tax avoidance practices. We focus on both transfer pricing (TP) and debt shifting (DS) activities and show how their optimal level is chosen by the shareholders. In addition, we perform an extensive...
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Currency Concentration in Sovereign Debt, Exchange Rate Cyclicality, and Volatility in Consumption
Fujii, Eiji - 2022
smooth their domestic consumption; however, it can also amplify volatility in consumption, depending on the currency in which … external debt portfolios, exchange rate cyclicality, and volatility in consumption of low- and middle-income countries. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241998
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Global and regional spillovers in emerging stock markets : a multivariate GARCH-in-mean analysis
Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2009
, volatility, and cross-market GARCH-in-mean effects. Hypotheses about the importance of different channels are tested. The results …
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The crisis in the foreign exchange market
Melvin, Michael; Taylor, Mark P. - 2009
implications for exchange rates, volatility, returns to currency investing, and transaction costs. This blow-by-blow" narrative is …
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Five Facts About Beliefs and Portfolios
Giglio, Stefano - 2019
We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in financial markets. The survey elicits beliefs that are crucial for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with administrative data on their portfolio composition and...
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