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Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of … theory, as well as accounting literature, we find evidence of greater idiosyncratic influences in the pricing of Asia's stock … stock pricing, which suggests that improvements in the regulation of securities markets in Asia could enhance the role of …
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This paper tests for evidence of contagion between the financial markets of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, and …
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This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...
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This paper finds that financial spillovers from China to regional markets are on the rise. The main transmission channel appears to be trade linkages, although direct financial linkages are playing an increasing role. Without an impact on global risk premiums, China's influence on regional...
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Understanding how markets are connected and shocks are transmitted is an important issue for policymakers and market participants. In this paper, we examine the connectedness of Asian equity markets within the region and vis-à-vis other major global markets. Using time-varying connectedness...
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. But, after the crisis, Asia's sovereign spreads normalized, despite the debt crisis in the euro area, reflecting a fall in …
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Net capital flows to emerging Asia rebounded at a record pace following the global financial crisis, raising concerns …
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This paper outlines an operational approach for incorporating the impact of asset price cycles in the calculation of structural fiscal balances (SFBs). The global financial crisis demonstrated that movements in asset prices can have an important fiscal impact. Failing to account for the fiscal...
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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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Two striking facts about international capital flows in emerging economies motivate this paper: (1) Governments hold large amounts of international reserves, for which they obtain a return lower than their borrowing cost. (2) Purchases of domestic assets by nonresidents and purchases of foreign...
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