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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities : a reply and update
Potrafke, Niklas - 2012
democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. -- political institutions ; Islam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687187
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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid
Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960]2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764976
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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/10003806732
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Global liquidity, risk premiums and growth opportunities
De Nicolò, Gianni; Ivaschenko, Iryna V. - 2009
This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging market countries, documents their evolution and co-movements, and assesses the extent to which such measures are determinants of selected spreads and proxy measures of countries'...
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Stock market integration between three CEECs, Russia and the UK
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2010
This paper estimates a tri-variate VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean model to examine linkages between the stock markets of three Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), specifically the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, and both the UK and Russia. The adopted framework allows to analyse...
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A game-theoretic foundation for the Wilson equilibrium in competitive insurance markets with adverse selection
Mimra, Wanda; Wambach, Achim - 2011
We extend the seminal Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) model on competitive insurance markets with asymmetric information in the spirit of Wilson (1977)'s 'anticipatory equilibrium' by introducing an additional stage in which initial contracts can be withdrawn after observation of competitors'...
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Sovereign rating news and financial markets spillovers : evidence from the European debt crisis
Arezki, Rabah; Candelon, Bertrand; Sy, Amadou N. R. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011838
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Financial integration, globalization, and real activity
De Nicolò, Gianni; Juvenal, Luciana - 2012
Using data for a large number of advanced and emerging market economies during 1982-2009, this paper examines the distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: (a) financial integration has progressed significantly worldwide,...
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Macro news and exchange rates in the BRICS
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2016
This paper examines the effects of newspaper headlines on the exchange rates visa-a-vis both the US dollar and the euro for the currencies of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The data are daily and cover the period 03/1/2000-12/5/2013. The estimated VAR-GARCH(1,1) model...
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Macro news and commodity returns
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2015
This paper adopts a VAR-GARCH approach to model the dynamic linkages between both the mean and the variance of macro news and commodity returns (Gold, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Aluminium and Crude Oil) over the period 01/01/2001-26/09/2014. The chosen...
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