This paper investigates wether the ongoing financial crisis has destabilized the microstructures of ASEAN stock market. Using daily stock market data from 2007 to 2010, we first develop a set of monthly country-level liquidity, efficiency, international integration and volatility indicators. We...

This article focuses on the reaction of Asean economies to international financial shocks. The crises in emerging markets at the end of the last century underlined the vulnerability of emerging Asean economies to international financial fluctuations and a lack of sustainability in their exchange...

This paper evaluates the domestic and international impacts of lowering short-term interest rates and increasing budget spending on several indicators of liquidity, volatility, credit and economic activity. Data from the 2003-2011 period in the United States, the euro zone and Canada were used...

This paper investigates how the ECB can reduce financial and banking fragmentation, a stated objective in crisis period. We use regional SVAR models and national GVAR models to study the impact of interest rates, QE and LTROs on price and volume indicators of fragmentation through the main...