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More than a Feeling : Confidence, Uncertainty and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Nowzohour, Laura - 2017

sentiment (considering both confidence and uncertainty) and economic activity. Second, we review existing empirical measures of … sentiment, in particular consumer confidence, stock market volatility (SMV) and Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), on monthly … across countries, suggesting the existence of a global factor. Consumer confidence has the closest co-movement with economic …

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International equity flows and returns: a quantative equilibrium approach

Albuquerque, Rui; Bauer, Gregory H.; Schneider, Martin - 2004

This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...

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An empirical study of liquidity and information effects of order flow on exchange rates

Breedon, Francis; Vitale, Paolo - 2004

We propose a simple structural model of exchange rate determination which draws from the analytical framework recently proposed by Bacchetta and van Wincoop (2003) and allows us to disentangle the liquidity and information effects of order flow on exchange rates. We estimate this model employing...

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Explaining exchange rate dynamics: the uncovered equity return parity condition

Cappiello, Lorenzo; De Santis, Roberto A. - 2005

By employing Lucas’ (1982) model, this study proposes an arbitrage relationship – the Uncovered Equity Return Parity (URP) condition – to explain the dynamics of exchange rates. When expected equity returns in a country/region are lower than expected equity returns in another...

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A market microstructure analysis of foreign exchange intervention

Vitale, Paolo - 2006

We formulate a market microstructure model of exchange determination we employ to investigate the impact of foreign exchange intervention on exchange rates and on foreign exchange (FX) market conditions. With our formulation we show i) how foreign exchange intervention influences exchange rates...

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Foreign-currency bonds: currency choice and the role of uncovered and covered interest parity

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Joy, Mark - 2008

Using count-data techniques, this paper studies the determinants of currency choice in the issuance of foreign-currency-denominated bonds. In particular, we investigate whether bond issuers choose their issuance currency in order to exploit the borrowing-cost savings associated with deviations...

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An empirical study on the decoupling movements between corporate bond and CDS spreads

Alexopoulou, Ioana; Andersson, Magnus; Georgescu, Oana Maria - 2009

Applied to the European markets, this paper analyzes the price of credit risk on the Credit Default Swap (CDS) and corporate bond markets by comparing the sensitivity of the credit spreads on each market to systematic, idiosyncratic risk factors and liquidity. Our analysis confirms the existence...

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Global crises and equity market contagion

Bekaert, Geert; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel; … - 2011

Using the 2007-2009 financial crisis as a laboratory, we analyze the transmission of crises to country-industry equity portfolios in 55 countries. We use an asset pricing framework with global and local factors to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings as...

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The pitch rather than the pit: investor inattention during FIFA world cup matches

Ehrmann, Michael; Jansen, David-Jan - 2012

At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention. Using minute‐by‐minute trading data for fifteen international stock exchanges, we present three...

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The effect of G20 summits on global financial markets

Lo Duca, Marco; Stracca, Livio - 2014

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the G20 has become the most important forum of global governance and cooperation, largely replacing the once powerful G7. In this paper we run an event study to test whether G20 meetings at ministerial and Leaders level have had an impact on global...

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