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Home bias in global bond and equity markets: the role of real exchange rate volatility

Fidora, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel; Thimann, Christian - 2006

This paper focuses on the role of real exchange rate volatility as a driver of portfolio home bias, and in particular as an explanation for differences in home bias across financial assets. We present a Markowitz-type portfolio selection model in which real exchange rate volatility induces a...

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Shifts in the portfolio holdings of euro area investors in the midst of COVID-19: Looking-through investment funds

Carvalho, Daniel; Schmitz, Martin - 2021

We study the impact of the COVID-19 shock on the portfolio exposures of euro area investors. The analysis "looks-through" holdings of investment fund shares to first gauge euro area investors' full exposures to global debt securities and listed shares by sector at end-2019 and to subsequently...

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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 integration of new EU Member States

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Gérard, Bruno; Kadareja, Arjan; … - 2006

This study assesses the degree of financial integration for a selected number of new EU member states between themselves and with the euro zone. Within the framework of a factor model for market returns, we measure integration as the amount of variance explained by the common factor relative to...

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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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The uncovered return parity condition

Cappiello, Lorenzo; De Santis, Roberto A. - 2007

This paper proposes an equilibrium relationship between expected exchange rate changes and differentials in expected returns on risky assets. We show that when expected returns on a risky asset in a certain economy are higher than the returns that are expected from investing in a risky asset in...

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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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Large debt financing: syndicated loans versus corporate bonds

Altunbas, Yener; Kara, Alper; Marqués-Ibáñez, David - 2009

Following the introduction of the euro, the markets for large debt financing experienced a historical expansion. We investigate the financial factors behind the issuance of syndicated loans for an extensive sample of euro area non-financial corporations. For the first time we compare these...

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The role of financial variables in predicting economic activity

Espinoza, Raphael; Fornari, Fabio; Lombardi, Marco J. - 2009

Previous research has shown that the US business cycle leads the European cycle by a few quarters, and can therefore help predicting euro area GDP. We investigate whether financial variables provide additional predictive power. We use a VAR model of the US and the euro area GDPs and extend it to...

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