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Country and Industry Dynamics in Stock Returns

Catão, Luis; Timmermann, Allan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

A perennial question in international finance is to what extent stock returns are influenced by country-location, as opposed to industry-affiliation, factors. This paper develops a novel methodology to measure these effects, in which portfolios mimicking "pure" country and industry factors are...

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Financial Market Spillovers in Transition Economies

Sahay, Ratna; Gelos, Gaston - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

that of their regions. Correlations in monthly indices of exchange market pressures can partly be explained by direct trade …

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Systemic Risk and Asymmetric Responses in the Financial Industry

López-Espinosa, Germán; Rubia, Antonio; Valderrama, Laura - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

To date, an operational measure of systemic risk capturing non-linear tail comovement between system-wide and individual bank returns has not yet been developed. This paper proposes an extension of the so-called CoVaR measure that captures the asymmetric response of the banking system to...

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Macrofinance Model of the Czech Economy; Asset Allocation Perspective

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

The paper developes a VAR macrofinance model of the Czech economy. It shows that yield misalignments from the yields implied by the macrofinance model partially determine subsequent yield changes over three to nine months. These yield misalignments tend to persist for a number of months. This...

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Transmission of Liquidity Shocks; Evidence From the 2007 Subprime Crisis

Hesse, Heiko; Frank, Nathaniel; González-Hermosillo, Brenda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

We examine the linkages between market and funding liquidity pressures, as well as their interaction with solvency issues surrounding key financial institutions during the 2007 subprime crisis. A multivariate GARCH model is estimated in order to test for the transmission of liquidity shocks...

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The Efficiency of the Japanese Equity Market

Nagayasu, Jun - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

Using the ARFIMA-FIGARCH model, this paper studies the efficiency of the Japanese equity market by examining the statistical properties of the return and volatility of the Nikkei 225. It shows that both follow a long range dependence, which stands against the efficient market hypothesis (EMH)....

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Adopting the Euro in Central Europe; Challenges of the Next Step in European Integration

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

Upon entry into the European Union, countries become members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), with a derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national currency with the euro, but can choose when to request...

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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies; Stylized Facts and Policy Options

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges …

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From Crisis to Recovery in Korea; Strategy, Achievements, and Lessons

Kang, Kenneth; Liang, Hong; Ma, Henry; Richards, Anthony J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper reviews and draws lessons from the stabilization and reform program that Korea implemented in response to the 1997-98 crisis. The economy recovered quickly from the deep recession in 1998 and its vulnerability to a balance of payments crisis has been reduced sharply. Significant...

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Stock Returns and Output Growth in Emerging and Advanced Economies

Mauro, Paolo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper studies the correlation between output growth and lagged stock returns in a panel of emerging market … economies and advanced economies. It finds that the correlation is as strong in emerging market economies as in advanced …, the paper finds that the strength of the correlation between output growth and lagged stock returns is significantly …

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