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This article analyzes the causes of U.S. mortgage backed securities crisis, a crucial market in the financial panic of 2008. It shows that irrational behavior of investors is not infrequent, as evidenced by Ponzi schemes and bubbles. A comparison is made between traditional and new models of...
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This study explored the effectiveness of the contrarian and momentum strategies in the United States stock market-S&P 500 and Chinese stock markets (Taiwan, Hong Kong, & Singapore) both during the 2008 financial crisis and during the pre-crisis period. Additionally, the study examined the...
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Currently, the world is facing a continuous process of integration in di fferent aspects and fi nancial markets are no exception to this development. Despite the fact that global integration is gradual, one can fi nd some specfi c events that might help to accelerate this trend. This paper shows...
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In the current era of strong worldwide market couplings the global financial village became highly prone to systemic collapses, events that can rapidly sweep through out the entire village. Here we present a new methodology to assess and quantify inter-market relations. The approach is based on...
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contagion of the U.S. financial crisis by constructing shock models for partially-overlapping and non-overlapping markets. There … exists important bi-directional, yet asymmetric, interdependence and contagion in emerging markets, with important regional … variations. Interdependence is driven more by U.S. shocks, while contagion is driven more by emerging market shocks. Frontier …
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This study explored the effectiveness of the contrarian and momentum strategies in the United States stock market-S&P 500 and Chinese stock markets (Taiwan, Hong Kong, & Singapore) both during the 2008 financial crisis and during the pre-crisis period. Additionally, the study examined the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052434
We examine empirical evidence of the behavior of stocks and bonds from BRIC nations using daily data from January 2003 to July 2010. We present unconditional and conditional empirical results depending upon a simple measure of U.S. financial stress. In the long term, BRIC bonds markets deviate...
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The problems that caused the recession began to accumulate in the global economics (and in the U.S. economics in particular) since the early 1980's. Problems were amassing as a clod, sophistication and ingenuity of economists and development of economic thought allowed to delay and put the peak...
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This paper examines the contagion effects of the U.S. subprime crisis on international stock markets using a DCC …-GARCH model on 38 country data. We find evidence of financial contagion not only in emerging markets but also in developed markets …
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This paper examines volatility transmission and conditional correlations behaviour between the US and the Asian stock markets considering the effect of the Global Financial crisis. One Asian mature market and ten emerging markets are included in the sample. To carry out the analysis, we use a...
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