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This paper studies international financial integration analyzing firms from various countries raising capital, trading equity, and/or cross-listing in major world stock markets. Using a large sample of 39,517 firms from 111 countries covering the period 1989-2000, we find that, although...
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into the Americas, Asia, and Europe and find that most of the variation explained by country effects is actually due to … region effects. Over time, these region effects have fallen. Within regions, however, only in Europe has segmentation … declined, while it has increased elsewhere. Europe is also the only region where industry effects are now robustly more …
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market integration within Europe, possibly a reflection of institutional changes such as the EMU …
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This paper investigates empirically the degree of international integration of industrial and emerging country equity markets. It analyzes two issues: first, the extent to which equity prices have tended to move similarly across countries and regions in the long run; and second, the strength of...
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We explore the link between international stock market comovement and the degree to which firms operate globally. Using stock returns and balance sheet data for companies in 20 countries, we estimate a factor model that decomposes stock returns into global, country-specific and industry-specific...
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This paper uses new data and new econometric techniques to investigate the impact of international financial integration on economic growth and also to assess whether this relationship depends on the level of economic development, financial development, legal system development, government...
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desirability of foreign capital. In this paper we report that Europe-including the new member states of the European Union …-provides a counterexample to these global anomalies. With increasing financial integration, capital in Europe has traveled …
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This paper develops a simple methodology to test for asset integration, and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free rates across assets. Expected risk-free rates are allowed to vary freely over time, constrained...
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This paper assesses changes in synchronization of real activity and financial market integration in Western Europe and …
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While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long …
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