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This paper estimates the impact of foreign participation in determining long-term local currency government bond yields … show that greater foreign participation in the domestic government bond market tends to significantly reduce long …-term government yields. Moreover, greater foreign participation does not necessarily result in increased volatility in bond yields in …
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This paper examines the benefits from hedging the currency exposure of international investments in single- and multi …-country equity and bond portfolios from the perspectives of German, Japanese, British and American investors. Over the period 1975 to … 2009, hedging of currency risk substantially reduced the volatility of foreign investments at a quarterly investment …
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The paper provides a systematic analysis of bilateral, source and host factors driving portfolio equity investment across countries, using newly-released data on international equity holdings at the end of 2001. It develops a model that links bilateral equity holdings to bilateral trade in goods...
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, whereas capital flows induced by foreign investors’ transactions in government bond markets do not. We relate these … investors in the stock, bond, and onshore FX markets of Thailand. …
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In this paper, we adopt a cross-country perspective to examine the evolution of capital flows into China, both in terms of volumes and composition. China's inflows have generally been dominated by foreign direct investment (FDI), a pattern that appears to be favorable in light of the recent...
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This paper focuses on the use of participatory notes (PNs) by foreign investors, as a conduit for portfolio flows into Indian equity markets for more than a decade. The broadening of India's foreign investor base, in recent years, has a bias towards hedge funds/unregistered foreign investors who...
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Over the past decade, South Africa has attracted relatively little foreign direct investment (FDI), but considerable amounts of portfolio inflows. In this context, the objective of the paper is twofold: to identify the determinants of the level and composition of capital flows to emerging...
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This paper examines the role financial markets play in the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic development. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents can either work for the foreign company or undertake entrepreneurial...
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This paper examines how capital controls affect FDI decisions and how the impact of these restrictive measures varies with different levels of country risk. We construct a model of firms' FDI decisions, broadly in Dunning's "eclectic theory" framework, using "real options" to emphasize economic...
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Recent years have witnessed a change in the composition of capital flows to developing countries, and FDI and equity flows have been playing an increasing role. In this paper we discuss the challenges for international macroeconomics that these developments pose and characterize stylized facts...
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