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Trade specialisation and economic convergence : evidence from two eastern European countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2009

-à-vis the core EU member states (EU-15) over the period 1990-2006. Specifically, we focus on whether there is a shift towards …

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EU banks rating assignments : is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our … aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are … intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst "new" EU countries typically have lower ratings than "old" ones, after …

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Financial development and economic growth : evidence from ten new EU members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2009

This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the …

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Common and spatial drivers in regional business cycles

Artis, Michael J.; Dreger, Christian; Cholodilin, … - 2009

We examine real business cycle convergence for 41 euro area regions and 48 US states. Results obtained by a panel model with spatial correlation indicate that the relevance of common business cycle factors is rather stable over the past two decades in the euro area and the US. Ongoing business...

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Long memory and volatility dynamics in the US dollar exchange rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2010

This paper focuses on nominal exchange rates, specifically the US dollar rate vis-à-vis the Euro and the Japanese Yen at a daily frequency. We model both absolute values of returns and squared returns using long-memory techniques, being particularly interested in volatility modelling and...

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Price formation on the EuroMTS platform

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2010

This paper examines the process of price discovery in the MTS system, which builds on the parallel quoting of euro-denominated government securities on a number of (relatively large) domestic markets and on a (relatively small) European marketplace (EuroMTS). Using twenty-seven months of daily...

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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the euro area

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Onorante, Luca; Paesani, Paolo - 2009

This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates the linkages between them in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in...

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Price discovery and trade fragmentation in a multi-market environment : evidence from the MTS system

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2011

This paper proposes new metrics for the process of price discovery on the main electronic trading platform for euro-denominated government securities. Analysing price data on daily transactions for 107 bonds over a period of twenty-seven months, we find a greater degree of price leadership of...

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Linkages between the US and European stock markets : a fractional cointegration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2015

This paper analyses the long-memory properties of US and European stock indices, as well as their linkages, using fractional integration and fractional cointegration techniques. These methods are more general and have higher power than the standard ones usually employed in the literature. The...

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Trade intensity and output synchronisation : on the endogeneity properties of EMU

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; De Santis, Roberta; Girardi, … - 2013

Using annual bilateral data over the period 1988-2011 for a panel of 24 industrialised and emerging economies, we analyse in a time-varying framework the determinants of output synchronisation in EMU (European Monetary Union) distinguishing between core and peripheral member states. The results...

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