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This paper examines from various angles foreign investors' daily transactions in six emerging Asian equity markets and their relationship with local market returns and exchange rate changes over the period 1999-2006. Confirming much of the literature, we find that equity market returns matter...
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This paper studies the impact of international capital flows on asset prices through risk premia. We investigate whether foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury securities significantly contributed to the decline in excess returns on long-term bonds between 1995 and 2008. We run forecasting...
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We investigate whether foreign purchases of long-term U.S. Treasury securities significantly affect their expected excess-returns. We run predictive regressions of realized excess returns on measures of net purchases of treasuries by both foreign official and private agents. We find that...
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From 1977 to 2013, bilateral stock flows between investors in the United States and foreign countries grew nearly tenfold. I study how this international flow of capital influences U.S. firm-level stock returns. I show that firms with low sensitivity to international stock flows have higher...
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This paper finds that currency carry trade, which is borrowing money from a low interest rate country and lending it into a high interest rate country, can generate high excess profits and high alpha in both developed and emerging markets. The profit from G-10 country carry trade is mainly...
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This study analyzed the effect of foreign portfolio capital flows on stock returns of Brazilian listed firms through a 6-factors APT model, in which an additional risk factor for foreign portfolio capital flows was included. First, in an aggregate analysis, the partial effect of foreign...
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With the rapid growth of countries' foreign asset and liability positions over the last two decades,financial returns on those positions ('NFA returns') have become material drivers of current accounts and net stock positions. This paper documents the relative importance of NFA return versus...
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The purpose of this paper investigates the direction of causality between the monthly stock returns and the monthly net foreign investor flows, and the existence of feedback trading by foreign investors for the "blue chip" stocks of the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE), an emerging stock market....
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We examine whether there is a relationship between foreign equity trading and average total volatility, measured as the value-weighted average of stock-return variances in the Istanbul Stock Exchange. We employ foreign equity purchase and sale data to track changes in foreign equity trading,...
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Since 1980, foreign investors have timed their purchases and sales of U.S. Treasurys to yield particularly low returns. Their annual dollar-weighted returns, measured by IRRs, are around 3% lower than a buy-and-hold strategy over the same horizon. In comparison, the IRRs achieved by domestic...
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