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This paper investigates the impact of infectious diseases on the evolution of sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a panel of 77 advanced and developing countries. Using annual data over the 2004-2020 period, we find that infectious-disease outbreaks have no discernible effect on CDS...
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reverberate around the world much more strongly than shocks from other regions, including the Euro area, while inward spillovers …
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This paper, using T-GARCH models, finds that the United States has been the major source of price and volatility … Singapore also were important spillover sources within the Asian region and affected United States to a lesser degree during the … ""stock market correction"" period. There is also evidence of structural breaks in the stock price and volatility dynamics …
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August to September 1998 has been characterized as one of the worst episodes of global financial distress in decades. This paper investigates the transmission of the Russian and the LTCM crises through global equity markets using a panel of 14 developing and industrial countries. The results...
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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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This paper interprets contagion effects as an increase in the volatility of aggregate shocks impinging on the domestic … banks borrow at a premium on world capital markets, and domestic producers (whose demand for credit results from working … capital needs) borrow at a premium from domestic banks. Higher volatility of producers’ productivity shocks increases both …
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spillover of shocks following the bond market developments in Hong Kong SAR in 1997. Our results suggest that this contagion, at …
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This paper investigates linkages between stock markets in seven industrialized countries since 1974. Empirical evidence shows that both nominal and real stock prices (and returns) are strongly positively correlated across countries, and that nominal exchange rate changes do not have systematic...
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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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