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This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns, within a wide range of advanced economies, over the different phases of the recent financial crisis. The adopted empirical framework is a bivariate volatility model, where...
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The empirical literature on contagion has mainly measured the propagation of shocks across countries using daily stock … to measure contagion. The paper argues that if the data suffers from heteroskedasticity (conditional or not), omitted …
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In light of rapidly increasing foreign equity liability positions of emerging market economies, we test for a necessary condition of international risk sharing, namely for systematic patterns between idiosyncratic output fluctuations and financial market developments. Panel analysis of 22...
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Market integration and currency risk are two main factors that distinguish international investment and financing decisions. Hence, we investigate the impact of currency factor on the dynamics of market integration. We compare integration indices estimated from conditional international asset...
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This paper builds a general test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis - a test … that can be interpreted as an extension of the normal correlation theorem. Contagion is defined as a structural break in … contagion is successful in controlling for a potential bias induced by changes in the variance of global shocks, current tests …
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While there is still much disagreement on the causes underlying recent emerging markets' crises, one factor that most observers have agreed upon is that contracting "dollar" (foreign currency) denominated external debt - as opposed to domestic currency debt - created balance sheet mismatches...
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This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...
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This paper reconsiders the role of foreign investors in developed country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions about investor sophistication: (i) both the foreign and domestic populations contain investors with superior information...
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taking place after 2007. We analyze contagion by studying the immediate effects of these events on CDS spreads of other … that such “fast and furious” contagion has been by and large a regional phenomenon. To analyze “slow burn” spillover …
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Most econometric studies of equity market integration suggest that national markets are increasingly becoming part of a global equity market. As regards the extent of this integration, however, the results are often inconclusive. Further analysis calls for a closer scrutiny of the basic...
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