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We investigate how corporate stock returns respond to geopolitical risk in the case of South Korea, which has experienced large and unpredictable geopolitical swings that originate from North Korea. To do so, a monthly index of geopolitical risk from North Korea (the GPRNK index) is constructed...
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Classical theories of monetary economics predict that real stock returns are negatively correlated with inflation when monetary policy is countercyclical. Previous empirical studies mostly focus on a small group of developed countries or a few countries with hyperinflation. In this paper, I...
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Using newly-constructed data covering the last decade, we document that, in most of forty markets, when added to the main index, firms’ returns experience an increase in comovement with the rest of the index, reflected in higher beta and greater explanatory power of the market return. Stock...
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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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, which links individual firms' DD to their real world PD. Since changes in the DD depend on a handful of parameters, the … additional bank capital needs could be large. The paper concludes discussing uses of the mapping beyond PD valuation suitable for …
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This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies … the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and …-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross …
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This paper examines the performance of emerging market bank stocks around the time of rating changes by major …
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We argue that firm interdependencies, as measured by correlations of stock returns, provide an indicator of systemic risk potential. We find a positive trend in stock return correlations net of diversification effects for a sample of U.S. Large and Complex Banking Organizations over 1988-99....
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bank- and firm-level data. Focusing on the deterioration of firms' balance sheets and the exposure of banks to different …
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