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Asia's Stock Markets : Are There Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons?

Ong, Li - 2014

Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of size and cross-border investment activity, the region's markets are reputed to be more “idiosyncratic” and less reliant on economic and corporate fundamentals in their...

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Asset Bubbles : Re-Thinking Policy for the Age of Asset Management

Jones, Bradley - 2015

In distilling a vast literature spanning the rational — irrational divide, this paper offers reflections on why asset bubbles continue to threaten economic stability despite financial markets becoming more informationally-efficient, more complete, and more heavily influenced by sophisticated...

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High frequency trading and fragility

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2017

We show that limited dealer participation in the market, coupled with an informational friction resulting from high frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity consumption decisions: traders demand more liquidity...

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It's not time to make a change : sovereign fragility and the corporate credit risk

Fornari, Fabio; Zaghini, Andrea - 2022

Relying on a perspective borrowed from monetary policy announcements and introducing an econometric twist in the traditional event study analysis, we document the existence of an "event risk transfer", namely a significant credit risk transmission from the sovereign to the corporate sector after...

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Central bank asset purchases and auction cycles revisited : new evidence from the euro area

Ferrara, Federico M. - 2024

This study provides new evidence on the relationship between unconventional monetary policy and auction cycles in the euro area. Using proprietary data on purchases of public sector securities implemented by the Eurosystem, the paper examines the flow effects of asset purchase programmes on...

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Collateral booms and information depletion

Asriyan, Vladimir; Laeven, Luc; Martin, Alberto - 2019

We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to … themselves from such diversion in two ways: collateralization and costly screening, which generates durable information about … accumulates physical capital but depletes information about investment projects. As a result, collateral-driven booms end in deep …

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Does it pay to have the euro? : Italy's politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2009

There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutions are fundamental for a country's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 has helped insulate Italy's financial...

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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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Equity Returns in the Banking Sector in the Wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - 2012

This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....

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Unconventional Monetary Policy and Asset Price Risk

Roache, Shaun K. - 2013

We examine the effects of unconventional monetary policy (UMP) events in the United States on asset price risk using risk-neutral density functions estimated from options prices. Based on an event study including a key exchange rate, an equity index, and five commodities, we find that “tail...

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