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Financial integration in the GCC region: market size versus national effects
Arin, Kerim Peren; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kyriacou, … - 2019
This paper examines financial spillovers between the four largest equity markets (by market capitalization) in the GCC region using a VAR-GARCH (1,1) framework that sheds light on interdependence as well as the effects of the 2014 oil crisis. Since the UAE is a federation including two stock...
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Securitization of mortgage debt, asset prices and international risk sharing
Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - 2009
We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption risk sharing: we find that countries with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264540
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The Euro/Dollar exchange rate: Chaotic or non-chaotic?
Federici, Daniela; Gandolfo, Giancarlo - 2011
econometrically estimated in continuous time with Euro/Dollar data and examined for the possible presence of chaotic motion. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274880
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Equity fund ownership and the cross-regional diversification of household risk
Becker, Sascha O.; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2008
We explore the link between portfolio home bias and consumption risk sharing among Italian regions using aggregated household level information on consumption, income and portfolio holdings. We propose to use data on equity fund ownership to proxy for regional home bias: equity funds are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264295
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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; van … - 2008
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
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Has the euro affected the choice of invoicing currency?
Ligthart, Jenny E.; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - 2010
We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our … home currency invoicing after the introduction of the euro. In addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the … role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The econometric analysis shows a significant effect of euro introduction above …
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Gold, Oil, and Stocks: Dynamic Correlations
Baruník, Jozef; Kocenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - 2015
We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...
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Forecasting Exchange Rates: An Investor Perspective
Melvin, Michael; Prins, John; Shand, Duncan - 2013
The popular scholarly exercise of evaluating exchange rate forecasting models relative to a random walk was stimulated by the well-cited Meese and Rogoff (1983) paper. Practitioners who construct quantitative models for trading exchange rates approach forecasting from a different perspective....
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Linkages between the US and European Stock Markets: A Fractional Cointegration Approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Orlando, … - 2015
both the S&P 500 Index and the Euro Stoxx 50 Index. Also, fractional cointegration appears to hold at least for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388186
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Networks of Volatility Spillovers among Stock Markets
Baumöhl, Eduard; Kocenda, Ev en; Lyócsa, Stefan; … - 2017
In our network analysis of 40 developed, emerging and frontier stock markets during 2006–2014, we describe and model volatility spillovers during global financial crisis and tranquil periods. The resulting market interconnectedness is depicted by fitting a spatial model incorporating several...
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