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Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2008

This paper analyses the impact of the shift away from a US dollar focus of systemically important emerging market economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US dollar exchange rate regimes remain pervasive and...

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Global crises and equity market contagion

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

unexplained increases in factor loadings as indicative of contagion. We find evidence of systematic contagion from US markets and … contagion from domestic equity markets to individual domestic equity portfolios, with its severity inversely related to the …. - Contagion ; financial crisis ; equity markets ; global transmission ; market integration ; country risk ; factor model …

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On the international spillovers of US quantitative easing

Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland - 2013

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Home bias in global bond and equity markets : the role of real exchange rate volatility

Fidora, Michael (contributor); … - 2006

This paper focuses on the role of real exchange rate volatility as a driver of portfolio home bias, and in particular as an explanation for differences in home bias across financial assets. We present a Markowitz-type portfolio selection model in which real exchange rate volatility induces a...

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China's dominance hypothesis and the emergence of a tri-polar global currency system

Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2011

This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tripolar and centred around the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China's "dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting a...

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Global financial transmission of monetary policy shocks

Ehrmann, Michael (contributor); … - 2006

The paper shows that US monetary policy has been an important determinant of global equity markets. Analysing 50 equity markets worldwide, we find that returns fall on average around 3.8% in response to a 100 basis point tightening of US monetary policy, ranging from a zero response in some to a...

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The transmission of emerging market shocks to global equity markets

Fratzscher, Marcel (contributor); … - 2007

The paper analyses whether, and to what extent, emerging market economies (EMEs) have systemic importance for global financial markets, above and beyond their influence during crises episodes. Using a novel database of exogenous economic and political shocks for 14 systematically relevant EMEs,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003410617

Identifying the global transmission of the 2007 - 09 financial crisis in a GVAR Model

Chudik, Alexander; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2011

The paper analyses and compares the role that the tightening in liquidity conditions and the collapse in risk appetite played for the global transmission of the financial crisis. Dealing with identification and the large dimensionality of the empirical exercise with a Global VAR approach, the...

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Liquidity, risk and the global transmission of the 2007-08 financial crisis and the 2010-11 sovereign debt crisis

Chudik, Alexander; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2012

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The pricing of sovereign risk and contagion during the European sovereign debt crisis

Beirne, John; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2013

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