Showing 1 - 10 of 43,584
The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that domestic saving and domestic investment are highly correlated across countries despite the rapid globalization and liberalization of financial markets in recent decades has been regarded as a Puzzle or Paradox. However, in this paper, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530303
During the last two decades, the degree of openness of national financial systems has increased substantially. At the same time, asymmetries in information and other financial market frictions have remain prevalent. We study both empirically and theoretically the implications of the opening up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072512
The purpose of this paper is to set out a surprisingly simple solution to the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle or Paradox, which is that even though global financial markets appear to be integrated, levels of saving and investment are correlated across countries because financial markets cannot, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756014
Meese and Rogoff (1983) and subsequent studies find that economic fundamentals are apparently not able to explain exchange rate movements, but we argue that this so-called "Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle" arose because researchers such as Meese and Rogoff (1983) did not use the right...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502367
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655888
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432295
We empirically investigate time variation in capital market integration and consumption risk sharing using data for 16 … integration and consumption risk sharing and that higher capital market integration forecasts more consumption risk sharing in the … future. This finding is robust to controlling for trade openness and exchange rate volatility as alternative drivers of risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006827
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438457
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563291
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949653