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Financial Regulation and the Courts : A Comparative Study of Judicial Approach in India, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom
2017
Financial regulation is a much debated topic for some time. The history of financial instruments started at a time when people started giving value to physical objects over and above its inherent utility. Right from the very beginning of their existence, it has been acknowledged that financial...
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Did fair-value accounting contribute to the financial crisis?
Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - 2009
The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303680
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Contagion between European and US banks: Evidence from equity prices
Fricke, Daniel - 2010
This paper employs an Extreme Value Theory framework to investigate the existence of contagion between European and US … finding market-based indicators in order to analyze the effects of crises and to quantify the risk of contagion. The Distance … coexceedances allows to interpret significant coefficients of foreign lagged coexceedances as contagion. The main finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274429
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Origins and Resolution of Financial Crises; Lessons from the Current and Northern European Crises
Ostrup, Finn; Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - 2009
financial sector and factors that explain why these strains lead to system-wide contagion and a possible credit crunch. Most of … that a financial crisis with its contagion within the system is caused by failures of legal, regulatory and political … crises would be reduced if appropriate institutions could be put in place Lacking appropriate institutions to avoid contagion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320249
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The effects of Dollar/Sterling exchange rate volatility of futures markets for coffee and cocoa
Jumah, Adusei; Kunst, Robert M. - 1999
The paper investigates the extent to which the dollar/sterling exchange rate fluctuations affect coffee and cocoa futures prices on the London LIFFE and the New York CSCE by means of multivariate GARCH models - under the assumption that traders in perfectly competitive markets have equal access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291928
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Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets
Pollard, Stephen K.; Sapra, Sunil K.; Canarella, Giorgio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-12, pp. 1-52
In this paper we examine the issue of asymmetry in the return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity market into the Canadian and Mexican equity markets. We model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three markets using the asymmetric power model of Ding, Granger...
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Stock Index Volatility Forecasting with High Frequency Data
Hol, Eugenie; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2002
The increasing availability of financial market data at intraday frequencies has not only led to the development of improved ex-post volatility measurements but has also inspired research into their potential value as an informa-tion source for longer horizon volatility forecasts. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324972
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Nonlinear time series and neural-network models of exchange rates between the US Dollar and major currencies
Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Peiris, Shelton; … - 2015
This paper features an analysis of major currency exchange rate movements in relation to the US dollar, as constituted in US dollar terms. Euro, British pound, Chinese yuan, and Japanese yen are modelled using a variety of non-linear models, including smooth transition regression models,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378229
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The effects of dollar/sterling exchange rate volatility of futures markets for coffee and cocoa
Jumah, Adusei; Kunst, Robert M. - 1999
The paper investigates the extent to which the dollar/sterling exchange rate fluctuations affect coffee and cocoa futures prices on the London LIFFE and the New York CSCE by means of multivariate GARCH models - under the assumption that traders in perfectly competitive markets have equal access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712332
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Nonlinear time series and neural-network models of echange rates between the US Dollar and major currencies
Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Peiris, Shelton; … - In: Risks : open access journal 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-14
This paper features an analysis of major currency exchange rate movements in relation to the US dollar, as constituted in US dollar terms. Euro, British pound, Chinese yuan, and Japanese yen are modelled using a variety of non-linear models, including smooth transition regression models,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443686