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The transmission of emerging market shocks to global equity markets

Cuadro Sáez, Lucía; Fratzscher, Marcel; Thimann, Christian - 2007

The paper analyses whether, and to what extent, emerging market economies (EMEs) have systemic importance for global financial markets, above and beyond their influence during crises episodes. Using a novel database of exogenous economic and political shocks for 14 systematically relevant EMEs,...

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Cross-border bank contagion in Europe

Gropp, Reint E.; Lo Duca, Marco; Vesala, Jukka - 2006

This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a … bank. We find evidence in favour of significant cross-border contagion. We also find some evidence that since the … introduction of the euro cross-border contagion may have increased. The results seem to be very robust to changes in the …

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Financial market integration under EMU

Jappelli, Tullio; Pagano, Marco - 2008

The single most important policy-induced innovation in the international financial system since the collapse of the Bretton-Woods regime is the institution of the European Monetary Union. This paper provides an account of how the process of financial integration has promoted financial...

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The impact of the euro on equity markets: a country and sector decomposition

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Kadareja, Arjan; Manganelli, Simone - 2008

This paper investigates whether comovements between euro area equity returns at national and industry level have changed after the introduction of the euro. By adopting a regression quantile-based methodology, we find that after 1999 the degree of comovements among euro area national equity...

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Comovements in volatility in the euro money market

Cassola, Nuno; Morana, Claudio - 2006

This paper assesses the sources of volatility persistence in Euro Area money market interest rates and the existence of linkages relating volatility dynamics. The main findings of the study are as follows. Firstly, there is evidence of stationary long memory, of similar degree, in all series....

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Cross-Border Mergers and acquisitions: Financial and institutional forces

Coeurdacier, Nicolas; De Santis, Roberto A.; Aviat, Antonin - 2009

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) sharply increased over the last two decades. It is often pointed out that cross-border capital reallocation is partly the result of financial liberalization policies, government policies and regional agreements. In this paper, we identify some of the...

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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

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Capital flows and the US ‘New Economy’: consumption smoothing and risk exposure

Miller, Marcus; Castrén, Olli; Zhang, Lei - 2005

In an analytically tractable model of the global economy, we calculate the Pareto improvement where a country experiencing a favourable supply side shock consumes more against expected future output and spreads the risk by selling shares. With capital inflows to finance the ‘New Economy’...

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Settlement finality as a public good in large-value payment systems

Pagès, Henri; Humphrey, David - 2005

Target is a real time gross settlement (RTGS) large value payment network operated by European central banks that eliminates systemic risk. Euro1 is a privately operated delayed net settlement (DNS) network that reduces substantially systemic risk but does not eliminate it. This difference makes...

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Explaining exchange rate dynamics: the uncovered equity return parity condition

Cappiello, Lorenzo; De Santis, Roberto A. - 2005

By employing Lucas’ (1982) model, this study proposes an arbitrage relationship – the Uncovered Equity Return Parity (URP) condition – to explain the dynamics of exchange rates. When expected equity returns in a country/region are lower than expected equity returns in another...

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