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Modelling volatilities and conditional correlations in futures markets with a multivariate t distribution

Pesaran, Bahram (contributor); … - 2007

than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC estimation procedure is applied to a portfolio of daily returns on … suggest a general trend towards a lower level of return volatility, accompanied by a rising trend in conditional cross …

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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857

How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...

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Private information, human capital, and optimal “home bias” in financial markets

Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...

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Financial globalization and economic policies

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - 2009

We review the large literature on various economic policies that could help developing economies effectively manage the process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help...

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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Capital market integration and gender inequality

Komura, Mizuki; Ogawa, Hikaru - 2018

induces empirically observed declines in fertility rates throughout the world. …

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Global macro-financial cycles and spillovers

Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; … - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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The determinants of China's international portfolio equity allocations

Agarwal, Isha; Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2020

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows has shifted from accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by the central bank to nonofficial outflows. Unlocking the enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant...

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Volatility and growth : governments are key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

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