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Do speculative traders anticipate or follow USD/EUR exchange rate movements? : new evidence on the efficiency of the EUR currency futures market
Hossfeld, Oliver; Röthig, Andreas - 2015
We address the question of whether various types of speculative investor correctly anticipate future USD/EUR currency movements or whether they tend rather to react to past exchange rate movements. Throughout the analysis, we differentiate between large and small traders, and an upper bound of...
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Carry funding and safe haven currencies : a threshold regression approach
Hossfeld, Oliver; MacDonald, Ronald - 2014
In this paper, we analyze which currencies can be regarded as safe haven currencies. Our empirical approach allows us to distinguish between a low- and high stress regime, and to control for the impact of carry trade reversals and other fundamental determinants. We therefore address the question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433356
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Financial cycles across G7 economies : a view from wavelet analysis
Mandler, Martin; Scharnagl, Michael - 2019
We analyse the cross-country dimension of financial cycles by studying cyclical co-movements in credit, house prices, equity prices and interest rates across the G7 economies. We use wavelet-based statistics to assess at which frequencies cyclical fluctuations and their crosscountry co-movements...
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Growth miracles and failures in a Markov switching classification model of growth
Kerekes, Monika - 2009
Acknowledging the fact that the growth experience of countries is seldom well described by the average growth rate, this paper aims at identifying countries that are similar in terms of their growth process, thus emphasizing the dynamics of growth rates. To that end, the growth experience of...
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Exchange rate volatility and cross-border travel : theory and empirics
Wisarut Suwanprasert - 2021
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Black Monday, globalization and trading behavior of stock investors
Kurz-Kim, Jeong-Ryeol - 2016
Using a simple sign test, we report new empirical evidence, taken from both the US and the German stock markets, showing that trading behavior substantially changed around Black Monday in 1987. It turned out that before Black Monday investors behaved more as in the momentum strategy; and after...
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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
Extant literature consistently documents that investors tilt their domestic equity portfolios towards regionally close stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead also determines their international investment...
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Do robo-advisors make us better investors?
Back, Camila; Morana, Stefan; Spann, Martin - 2021
Investors increasingly can obtain assistance from "robo-advisors," artificial intelligence - enabled digitalized service agents imbued with anthropomorphic design elements that can communicate using natural language. The present article considers the impact of anthropomorphized robo-advisors on...
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Dynamic distributive effects of money stock changes in a three-country world model under flexible exchange rate regimes
Aoki, Masanao - 1981
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Macroeconomic stability and the real interest rate : a cross-country analysis
Groth, Charlotta; Zampolli, Fabrizio - 2010
We construct a measure of the short-term world interest rate using principal component analysis. Drawing on real … interest rate data for 18 OECD countries for the period 1985 - 2008, persistent deviations from the world interest rate that … that a rise in conditional consumption growth volatility relative to the rest of the world reduces the foreign exchange …
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