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driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of … confirm the presence of informational spillovers with respect to political liberalization but offer little support for … informational spillovers with respect to economic reforms. …
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This paper examines the spillover effects of sovereign rating news on European financial markets during the period 2007-2010. Our main finding is that sovereign rating downgrades have statistically and economically significant spillover effects both across countries and financial markets. The...
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not strictly dominate positive spillovers. We find that the overall intra-market connectedness of U.S. stocks increased …This paper suggests how to quantify asymmetries in volatility spillovers that emerge due to bad and good volatility …. Using data covering most liquid U.S. stocks in seven sectors, we provide ample evidence of the asymmetric connectedness of …
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This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets … America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of possible transmission channels: spillovers in mean returns … suggest that spillovers from regional and global markets are present in the vast majority of EMEs. However, the nature of …
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findings show that there is contagion within the Euro Area. Additionally, contagious effects generated by rating announcements …
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We investigate the trade-off between the risk-sharing gains enjoyed by more interconnected firms and the costs resulting from an increased risk exposure. We find that when the shock distribution displays “fat” tails, extreme segmentation into small components is optimal, while minimal...
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This paper explores the link between monetary policies of large industrial countries and international credit cycles. Based on an overinvestment framework, we show that in the prevailing asymmetric world monetary system, monetary policies of large centre countries can fuel credit booms in...
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This paper examines volatility spillovers from mature to emerging stock markets and tests for changes in the … transmission mechanism—contagion—during turbulences in mature markets. Tri-variate GARCH-BEKK models of returns in global (mature …
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This paper explores the behavior of emerging market mutual funds using anovel database covering the holdings of individual funds over the periodJanuary 1996 to March 1999. An examination of individual crises shows that,on average, funds withdrew money one month prior to the events. Thedegree of...
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of last resort and other safety net issues. We devote particular emphasis to the analysis of systemic risk and contagion …
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