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Why did warrant markets close in China but not Taiwan?
Wong, Wing Keung; Hooi Hooi Lean; McAleer, Michael; … - 2018
analysis, though there is no arbitrage opportunity between the China and Taiwan warrant markets, it is shown that the markets …
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The euro introduction and non-euro currencies
Dijk, Dick van; Munandar, Haris; Hafner, Christian M. - 2006
This paper documents the existence of large structural breaks in the unconditional correlations among the British pound, Norwegian krone, Swedish krona, Swiss franc, and euro exchange rates (against the US dollar) during the period 1994-2003. Using the framework of dynamic conditional...
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Measuring financial market integration over the long run : is there a u-shape?
Volosovych, Vadym - 2011
Using long time series for sovereign bond markets of fifteen industrialized economies from 1875 to 2009, I find that financial market integration by the end of the 20th century was higher than in earlier periods and exhibited a J-shaped trend with a trough in the 1920s. The main reason for the...
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SETS, arbitrage activity, and stock price dynamics
Taylor, Nicholas; Dijk, Dick van; Franses, Philip Hans; … - 1999
This paper provides an empirical description of the relationshipbetween the trading system operated by a stockexchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the exchange. Therecent introduction ofSETS in the London Stock Exchange provides an excellent opportunity...
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Capital structure arbitrage revisited
Wojtowicz, Marcin - 2014
We study risk and return properties of capital structure arbitrage strategies aiming to profit from temporal mispricing … between equity and credit default swaps (CDSs) of companies. We find that capital structure arbitrage provides an attractive … annualized return of 24.35% on invested capital. The arbitrage returns are higher for lower rated companies and surprisingly they …
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Round-the-clock price discovery for cross-listed stocks : US-Dutch evidence
Menkveld, Albert J.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Lucas, André - 2003
U.S. trading in non-U.S. stocks has grown dramatically. Round-the-clock, these stocks trade in the home market, in the U.S. marketand, potentially, in both markets simultaneously. We use a state space model to study 24-hour price discovery. As opposed to thestandard variance ratio'' approach,...
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Splitting orders in fragmented markets
Menkveld, Albert J. - 2001
A number of recent theoretical studies have explored trading in fragmented markets, e.g. Biais etal. (2000), a phenomenon increasingly witnessed in modern markets. The key assumptiongenerating the results is that there is at least one liquidity demander exploiting access to allmarkets by...
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High-frequency trading around large institutional orders
Kervel, Vincent van; Menkveld, Albert J. - 2017
Liquidity suppliers lean against the wind. We analyze whether high-frequency traders (HFTs) lean against large institutional orders that execute through a series of child orders. The alternative is HFTs trading "with the wind," that is, in the same direction. We find that HFTs initially lean...
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The trade and FDI effects of EMU enlargement
Brouwer, Jelle; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2007
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the 10 countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a data set of unbalanced...
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Fertile soil for structural funds?
Ederveen, Sjef; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nahuis, Richard - 2002
Structural funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the EuropeanUnion to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process ofconvergence. This paper empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Fundsby means of a panel data analysis for 13...
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