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Are Bunds special? This paper estimates the 'Bund premium' as the difference in convenience yields between other sovereign safe assets and German government bonds adjusted for sovereign credit risk, liquidity and swap market frictions. A higher premium suggests less substitutability of sovereign...
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Models of “contagion” rely on market imperfections to explain why adverse shocks in one asset market might be … associated with asset sales in many unrelated markets. This paper demonstrates that contagion can be explained with basic … portfolio theory without recourse to market imperfections. It also demonstrates that “Value-at-Risk” portfolio management rules …
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This paper revisits the relative importance of global versus country-specific factors underlying stock returns. It constructs a new firm level data set covering emerging and developed markets and estimates a simple factor model, which breaks down stock returns into a global business cycle...
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, both in- and out-of-sample. The shock exposures are thus a stock-selection device for international portfolio …
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14 developing and industrial countries. The results show that contagion was systemic during the period, with industrial … importance of studying them jointly. An implication of the empirical results is that models of contagion that exclude industrial …
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integration with the rest of the world, arguably turning these economies more vulnerable to global financial shocks; and an …
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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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We investigate the relative importance of country and industry effects in international stock returns, with the innovation that we decompose country effects into region and within-region country effects. We divide the global stock market into the Americas, Asia, and Europe and find that most of...
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This paper sheds new light on the degree of international fiscal-financial spillovers by investigating the effect of domestic fiscal policies on cross-border bank lending. By estimating the dynamic response of U.S. cross-border bank lending towards the 45 recipient countries to exogenous...
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