This paper takes a perspective from foreign exchange (FX) to investigate the daily trading behavior and price impact of foreign investors in six Asian emerging equity markets over the past two decades. It exploits the unsolved interrelationship between capital flows and equity returns, and it...

This paper investigates the relative importance of hot money in bank credit and portfolio flows from the US to 18 emerging markets over the period 1988-2012. We deploy state-space models à la Kalman filter to identify the unobserved hot money as the temporary component of each type of flow. The...

The portfolio-rebalancing theory of Hau and Rey (2006) yields the uncovered equity parity (UEP) prediction that local-currency equity return appreciation is offset by currency depreciation. Vector autoregressive model estimation and tests for eight Asian emerging markets using daily data reveal...

This research study investigates the influence of hot money in equity flows from the United States to twelve emerging-market (EM) countries on the local stock markets during January 1993 to December 2013, including both crisis and non-crisis periods. The study identifies de facto hot money as...