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Managing capital flows is the key policy challenge for emerging economies like India in the aftermath of the crisis. In … contrast to other emerging markets who are levying capital controls, India's macro-monetary framework is distinguished by … significant restrictions that help manage inflows. Against this context, the paper characterizes India's capital account …
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In the recent years several commentators hinted at an increase of the correlation between equity and commodity prices … various measures of correlation. Next, we assess to what extent correlations between oil and equity prices can be exploited … for asset allocation. We develop a time-varying Bayesian Dynamic Conditional Correlation model for volatilities and …
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I examine whether or not returns on stock markets are a leading indicator for real macroeconomic developments in Austria, Japan and the USA. Further I deal with the concept of stock market efficiency, the question whether or not information from real and financial sectors of the economy is...
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costs as variables strategically influenced by stock market integrations as an increase in the correlation of underlying …
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equilibriumvolatility and correlation risk premia. In our economy, uncertainty is linked to both firm-specific and market-wide signals …: Greatersubjective uncertainty or higher disagreement on the market-wide signal imply a larger correlation of beliefs, a strongerco …-movement of stock returns, and a substantial correlation risk premium generated by the endogenous optimal risksharingamong …
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How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...
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We exploit the natural experiment of Japan's opening to international trade to examine how comparative advantage can shape a country's long-run path towards financial development. In the late 19th century, many of Japan's prefectures had a natural comparative advantage in silk reeling. Producing...
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The Czech banking system is seen by many observers to be the most successful of all former socialist economies'. But have Czech banks successfully provided worthy enterprises with sufficient credit from the funds made available to them? Using data from the Czech National Bank and data on...
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China occupies a unique position among developing countries. Its success in achieving relative stability in the financial sector since the institution of reforms in 1979 has given way to relative instability since the beginning of the current global financial crisis. Over the last few years,...
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The paper analyzes why households in transition economies prefer to hold sizeable shares of their assets in cash at home rather than in banks. Using survey data from ten Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries, I document the relevance of this behavior and show that cash preferences...
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