The aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of alternative trading systems (ATS) and to present an interpretation of their role in the securities markets. The discussion focuses on trading venues related to debt instruments and equities. Geographically, the American and European markets are...

This paper attempts to describe and compare developments in the components of Finland's net international investment position (NIIP). The data consist of sectoral flows and valuation items over the period 1985-1998, which is, for analytical purposes, broken down into two subperiods: before and...

This paper extends the analytical framework provided by Glick and Rogoff (JME 1995) to an economy with traded and nontraded goods, and it analyzes the impact of country-specific and global productivity shocks on the current account and investment that are largely consistent with the empirical...

The joint behavior of investment and the current account is derived as a triangular simultaneous equations model. To estimate this model for the G7 countries, we propose a full-information GLS estimator for panel data that extends Zellner-Theil three-stage least squares estimator and allows for...

Recent literature suggests the traditional measurement of the degree of international capital mobility by the size of the saving-investment correlation to be flawed. We employ Granger causality tests to measure the degree of capital mobility using quarterly data for a sample of 7 industrialised...

Using a small VAR of the current account and investment, we identify two categories of shocks: permanent vs. transitory and country-specific vs. global. Our approach involves only the most minimal identifying assumption. Using data from the G7n countries, we find that the predictions of the...

This paper extends the analytical framework provided by Glick and Rogoff (JME 1995) to an economy with traded and nontraded goods, and it analyzes the impact of country-specific and global productivity shocks on the current account and investment that are largely consistent with the empirical...

The joint behavior of investment and the current account is derived as a triangular simultaneous equations model. To estimate this model for the G7 countries, we propose a full-information GLS estimator for panel data that extends Zellner-Theil three-stage least squares estimator and allows for...

Over the period 1972-1986, the correlations of GDP, employment and investment between the United States and an aggregate of Europe, Canada and Japan were respectively 0.76, 0.66, and 0.63. For the period 1986 to 2000 the same correlations were much lower: 0.26, 0.03, and -0.07 (real...