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Financial Sector Development in Brunei Darussalam : Depth, Access, and Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2022
depth, access and efficiency during 2014-2018 based on 24 indicators. This paper starts with the examination of the role of … study period compared to its most ASEAN and GCC countries. The efficiency of banking sector, on an average, remained at a … sector development through enhancing depth and efficiency of the banking sector and the development of efficient bond and …
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Expectation Dispersion, Uncertainty, and the Reaction to News
Born, Benjamin; Dovern, Jonas; Enders, Zeno - 2021
Releases of key macroeconomic indicators are closely watched by financial markets. We investigate the role of expectation dispersion and economic uncertainty for the stock-market reaction to indicator releases. We find that the strength of the financial market response to news decreases with the...
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Low Inflation : High Default Risk and High Equity Valuations
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019
asset prices and corporate default risk. Our model includes two empirically grounded nominal frictions: fixed nominal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892192
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Cybersecurity Risk
Florackis, Chris; Louca, Christodoulos; Michaely, Roni; … - 2021
We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in … corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays … intuitive relations with quantitative measures of cybersecurity risk disclosure language, exhibits a positive trend over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314803
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Macro-Financial Linkages in the High-Frequency Domain : The Effects of Uncertainty on Realized Volatility
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020
This paper estimates a bivariate HEAVY system including daily and intra-daily volatility equations and its macro-augmented asymmetric power extension. It focuses on economic factors that exacerbate stock market volatility and represent major threats to financial stability. In particular, it...
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Measuring Euro Area Monetary Policy
Altavilla, Carlo; Brugnolini, Luca; Gürkaynak, Refet S.; … - 2019
We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three factors capture about all of the variation in the yield curve but that these are different factors with different variance shares in the window that contains the policy decision...
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High-frequency analysis of foreign exchange interventions: what do we learn?
Menkhoff, Lukas - 2008
The high-frequency analysis of foreign exchange dynamics is helpful in order to better identify the impact of central bank interventions. Evidence robustly shows that interventions do indeed move the exchange rate level in the desired direction. Interventions increase volatility in the short run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264498
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Large-scale disasters and the insurance industry
Krämer, Walter; Schich, Sebastian T. - 2008
We investigate the impact of the 20 largest - in terms of insured losses - man-made or natural disasters on various insurance industry stock indices. We show via an event study that insurance sectors worldwide are quite resilient, in a market value sense, to unexpected losses to capital: our...
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Money Is the Root of Asset Bubbles
Awaya, Yu; Iwasaki, Kohei; Watanabe, Makoto - 2024
This paper examines how monetary expansion causes asset bubbles. When there is no monetary expansion, a bubbly asset is not created due to a hold-up problem. Monetary expansion increases buyers' money holdings, and then, dealers are willing to buy a worthless asset from sellers, in hopes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534470
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Tech in Fin before FinTech: Blessing or Curse for Financial Stability?
Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, Yannick - 2020
Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...
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