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While many studies have looked into the determinants of yields on externally issued sovereign bonds of emerging economies, analysis of domestically issued bonds has hitherto been limited, despite their growing relevance. This paper finds that the extent to which fiscal variables affect domestic...
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In this paper potential financial linkages between liquidity and bank solvency measures in advanced economies and …
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This study empirically analyzes the determinants of bond market development in a cross section of 23 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries between 1990 and 2008. It considers the stage of development and the size of the bond market, as well as the historical, structural, institutional and...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. REVIEW OF PREVIOUS STUDIES -- III. DATA AND SPECIFICATION -- IV. BASIC RESULTS -- V. SENSITIVITY CHECKS -- VI. CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER ASPECTS OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT -- VII. THE COMPOSITION OF THE INVESTOR BASE -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. MOTIVATION -- II. HISTORICAL EVIDENCE ON DEFAULT AND LENDING RESUMPTION -- III. THE ENVIRONMENT -- IV. OBSERVABLE TYPES -- V. UNOBSERVABLE TYPES -- VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- PROOFS OF PROPOSITIONS 3 AND 4 -- REFERENCES.
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Emerging European countries have made large strides in developing their local capital markets since the early-1990s. However, the rate of development has been widely disparate across countries and market segments, underpinned by the varying degrees of progress made in key areas such as...
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This paper examines economic growth and various dimensions of regional disparities in Slovakia. We find that regional … the time that Slovakia initiated negotiations on EU accession. Notwithstanding ?-divergence in the levels, there was …
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This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging … evidence of an historical increase in market liquidity since the early 1990s, in part as a result of advances in international … financial integration, but markets have been increasingly exposed to global systemic liquidity shocks. Second, liquidity …
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Interest rates in China comprise a mix of both market determined interest rates (interbank rates and bond yields), and regulated interest rates (lending and deposit rates), reflecting China's gradual process of interest rate liberalization. We argue, using a theoretical model and empirical...
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. Some have attributed the fall to improved economic fundamentals while others to ample global liquidity. The paper models …
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