Im ersten Kapitel wird die Bedeutung von Kovarianzen im Volatilitäts- Transmissionsprozess zwischen verschiedenen Märkten untersucht. Um den Informationsverlust quantifizieren zu können, der durch die Nichtberücksichtigung von Kovarianzen entsteht, führen wir eine Vergleichsstudie zwischen...

What type of crisis is generated when debt increases? We study the Spanish debt evolution in the 19th and 20th centuries by introducing currency and stock-market crises in the Reinhart and Rogoff (2011) framework. We find their same results for the determinants of banking and debt crises but...

This study investigates the reaction of stock prices to sovereign debt restructurings and credit rating reviews in six frontier stock markets. The study uses the event study methodology corrected for the impact of thin trading to investigate stock market reaction to sovereign debt restructurings...

After the recent crisis, a reduction was observed in global current account (flow imbalances). Still, global disequilibria as measured in terms of countries' net foreign assets (stock imbalances), kept increasing. This paper studies whether stock imbalances have a stabilizing or destabilizing...