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Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan

Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - 2003

Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the … United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects … increased considerably. More precisely, price innovations in European equities (both aggregate returns and sector returns) have …

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Growth expectations, capital flows and international risk sharing

Castrén, Olli; Miller, Marcus; Stiegert, Roger - 2003

Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...

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The euro area financial system

Hartmann, Philipp; Maddaloni, Angela; Manganelli, Simone - 2003

Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...

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International equity flows and returns

Albuquerque, Rui; Bauer, Gregory H.; Schneider, Martin - 2004

This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...

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Diversification in euro area stock markets

Moerman, Gerard - 2004

economic integration among euro area countries has important consequences for the factors driving asset returns in financial … markets. This study concentrates on the implications of the changing structure of security returns for asset management. Using …

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Improving opportunities for initial public offerings on growth stock markets in Europe

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Unternehmen … - 2005

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Price stability and monetary policy effectiveness when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero

Coenen, Günter; Orphanides, Athanasios; Wieland, Volker - 2003

This paper employs stochastic simulations of a small structural rational expectations model to investigate the consequences of the zero bound on nominal interest rates. We ﬁnd that if the economy is subject to stochastic shocks similar in magnitude to those experienced in the U.S. over the...

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