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Stock Market Integration in Asia : Global or Regional? Evidence from Industry Level Panel Convergence Tests
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2017
This paper examines global and regional stock market integration in Asia at both the aggregate and disaggregate (industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised as follows. In the pre-2008 crisis period, no...
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Financial Integration, Globalization, and Real Activity
De Nicolo, Gianni - 2013
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; both advances in financial integration and globalization are associated … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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Equity Risk Premium and Regional Integration
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi - 2013
This article contributes to the literature on stock market integration by developing and estimating a capital asset pricing model with segmentation effects in order to assess stock market segmentation and its effects on risk premia at the regional level. We show that the estimated degrees of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084013
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Was Germany ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885-1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2013
, while external integration worsened after World War I and again with the Great Depression, in part because of border changes …
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Global and Regional Financial Integration in Emerging Asia : Evidence from Stock Markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2017
This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean...
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Cross-Border Banking in Regulated Markets : Is Financial Integration Desirable?
Haufler, Andreas - 2016
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...
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International Financial Market Integration, Asset Compositions, and the Falling Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Enders, Almira - 2018
This paper provides an explanation for the observed decline of the exchange rate pass-through into import prices by modeling the effects of financial market integration on the optimal choice of the pricing currency in the context of rigid nominal goods prices. Contrary to previous literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933708
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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy
Liu, Xuepeng - 2013
We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy. Our model shows that FTAs can critically reduce the incentive of authoritarian groups to seek power by destroying protectionist rents, thus making democracies last longer. This...
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On the Widely Differing Effects of Free Trade Agreements : Lessons from Twenty Years of Trade Integration
Baier, Scott L. - 2016
We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...
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Macroeconomic Potentials of Transatlantic Free Trade : A High Resolution Perspective for Europe and the World
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014
since the Uruguay Round (1986 to 1994). It would create a free trade zone covering 45% of world GDP. However, critics … gains for Germany (3.5%), Europe (3.9%), and the world (1.6%), but that it could also harm third countries …
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