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banks over-invest domestically to a considerable extent and that cross-border diversification entails considerable gain …
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We show that international consumption risk sharing is significantly improved by capital flows, especially portfolio investment. Concomitantly, we show that poor institutions hamper risk sharing, but to an extent that decreases with openness. In particular, risk sharing is prevalent even among...
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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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Theory of financial intermediation gives contradicting answers to the question whether banks should diversify or focus … this end we measure diversification for all German banks in the period from 1993 to 2002. As measures we use a broad set of … naive diversification across all industries or, alternatively, the economy's industry structure. With this framework our …
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Should banks be diversified or focused? Does diversification indeed lead to enhanced performance and, therefore …, greater safety for banks, as traditional portfolio and banking theory would suggest? This paper investigates the link between … banks? profitability (ROA) and their portfolio diversification across different industries, broader economic sectors and …
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This paper empirically investigates the determinants of R&D diversification strategies in the drug industry. It … enriches the existing literature by proposing to look at diversification factors, which reflect market and technological …&D diversification is governed by the economies of scope as well as the escape competition motive. Moreover, it is found that competition …
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diversification against the benefits in terms of the standard deviation of the returns. Suppose a safety first investor cares about …
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Die Wahl zwischen Diversifikation und Spezialisierung ist eine lange und kontrovers diskutierte Frage in der … messen, wie sie bei real existierender, also beobachtbarer Diversifikation reagieren und ob sie in Querschnitt- und … Diversifikation sowie ihrer Entwicklung im Zeitverlauf für das verarbeitende Gewerbe in Deutschland gegeben. …
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This paper investigates contagion effects. In a model with highly and lowly informed investors we show that a currency crisis in one country can trigger a crisis in another country. Portfolio losses of the highly informed investors in one country will force them to withdraw capital from the...
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This paper investigates contagion effects. In a model with highly and lowly informed investors we show that a currency crisis in one country can trigger a crisis in another country. Portfolio losses of the highly informed investors in one country will force them to withdraw capital from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305446