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Exchange Rate Uncertainty and International Portfolio Flows
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
is negative in all countries except Canada (where it is positive) in the case of bond flows. Under the assumption of risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081704
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Conditional Volatility and Correlations of Weekly Returns and the VaR Analysis of 2008 Stock Market Crash
Pesaran, Bahram - 2013
making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations … models proposed in the literature can be used to formally characterize and quantify market risk. In particular, we ask how … adequate these models are for modelling market risk at times of financial crisis. In doing so we consider a multivariate t …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094817
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Foreign Currency Denominated Assets and International Shock Absorption in Switzerland and Japan
Schnabl, Gunther - 2015
Currencies of countries with persistent current account surpluses and high foreign currency denominated assets such as the Swiss franc and Japanese yen are under a persistent appreciation pressure, what restricts the degree of freedom in the choice of exchange rate regime. Official announcements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009766
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Pegxit Pressure : Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
Mitchener, Kris James - 2017
relationship between export-price shocks and currency-risk premia in emerging market economies, indicating that negative export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965714
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The Crisis in the Foreign Exchange Market
Melvin, Michael - 2013
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 had major implications for the foreign exchange market. We review events and implications for exchange rates, volatility, returns to currency investing, and transaction costs. This “blow-by-blow” narrative is intended to be a resource for researchers seeking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095774
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Oil Price Uncertainty and Sectoral Stock Returns in China : A Time-Varying Approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper investigates the time-varying impact of oil price uncertainty on stock prices in China using weekly data on ten sectoral indices over the period January 1997-Febraury 2014. The estimation of a bivariate VAR-GARCH-in-mean model suggests that oil price volatility affects stock returns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050468
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Global Engagement and Returns Volatility
Girma, Sourafel - 2016
This paper uses high-frequency data for publicly-listed Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 2000 to 2010 to show that a greater reliance on foreign market sales increases the conditional volatility of firms' stock returns. The two margins of global engagement we consider, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000911
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Hybrid Historical Simulation VaR and ES : Performance in Developed and Emerging Markets
Zikovic, Sasa - 2009
We introduce a new hybrid approach to joint estimation of Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) for high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155427
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Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change : A Multi-Model Comparison
Gillingham, Kenneth - 2015
The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013082
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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks
Millner, Antony - 2021
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315705