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Determinants of stock market correlations : accounting for model uncertainty and reverse causality in a large panel setting
Afonso, António; Beck, Krzysztof; Jackson, Karen - 2022
volatility fail the robustness test. On the other hand, we find strong evidence supporting several others: (1) inertia, with …
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Sovereign Credit Ratings, Market Volatility, and Financial Gains
Afonso, António - 2014
filtered using EGARCH specifications. The estimation results show that upgrades do not have significant effects on volatility …, but downgrades increase stock and bond market volatility. Contagion is present, with sovereign rating announcements … (increase) in volatility in other countries. The empirical results show also a financial gain and risk (value-at-risk) reduction …
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Financial, institutional, and macroeconomic determinants of cross-country portfolio equity flows
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof; … - 2022
We consider a new dataset that provides a description of the population of financial equity flows between developed countries from 2001 to 2018. We follow the standard practice of controlling for pull and push factors as well as gravity-style variables, while also accounting for the business...
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Do financial markets reward government spending efficiency?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2021
We link governments’ spending efficiency scores, to sovereign debt assessments made by financial markets´, more specifically by three rating agencies (Standard & Poors, Moody´s and Fitch). Public efficiency scores are computed via data envelopment analysis. Then, we rely notably on ordered...
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Fiscal activism and price volatility : evidence from advanced and emerging economies
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar - 2017
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Sovereign credit ratings, market volatility, and financial gains
Afonso, António; Gomes, Pedro; Taamouti, Abderrahim - 2014
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A note on inflation dynamics, price volatility, and fiscal activism
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 24 (2020) 5, pp. 1299-1313
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Public and private investment rates of return : evidence for industrialized countries
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - In: Applied economics letters 17 (2010) 7/9, pp. 839-843
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Fiscal policy events and interest rate swap spreads
Afonso, António; Strauch, Rolf - 2004
In this paper we assess the importance given in capital markets to the credibility of the European fiscal framework. We evaluate to which extent relevant fiscal policy events taking place in the course of 2002 produced a reaction in the long-term bond segment of the capital markets. Firstly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636526
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Sovereign credit ratings and financial markets linkages : application to European data
Afonso, António; Furceri, Davide; Gomes, Pedro - 2011
We use EU sovereign bond yield and CDS spreads daily data to carry out an event study analysis on the reaction of government yield spreads before and after announcements from rating agencies (Standard & Poor's, Moody's, Fitch). Our results show: significant responses of government bond yield...
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