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The impacts of global risk and US monetary policy on US Dollar exchange rates and excess currency returns

Bernoth, Kerstin; Herwartz, Helmut; Trienens, Lasse - 2023

We examine the causal relationship between US monetary policy shocks, exchange rates and currency excess returns for a sample of eight advanced countries over the period 1980M1 to 2022M11. We find that the dynamics of the US dollar exchange rate is the main driver of currency excess returns. The...

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Multimarket trading and the cost of debt: evidence from global bonds

Petrasek, Lubomir - 2010

Global bonds are international securities designed to be traded and settled efficiently in multiple markets. This paper studies global bonds to examine the effects of multimarket trading on corporate bond liquidity, prices, and the cost of debt. Using a sample of primary and secondary market...

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Private information, human capital, and optimal “home bias” in financial markets

Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...

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The US, Economic News, and the Global Financial Cycle

Boehm, Christoph - 2020

We provide evidence for a causal link between the US economy and the global financial cycle. Using a unique intraday dataset, we show that US macroeconomic news releases have large and significant effects on global risky asset prices. Stock price indexes of 27 countries, commodity prices, and...

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Non-US Global Banks and Dollar (Co-)Dependence : How Housing Markets Became Internationally Synchronized

Ehlers, Torsten; Hoffmann, Mathias; Raabe, Alexander - 2021

US net capital inflows drive the international synchronization of house price growth. An increase (decrease) in US net capital inflows improves (tightens) US dollar funding conditions for non-US global banks, leading them to increase (decrease) foreign lending to third-party borrowing countries....

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Does U.S. Monetary Policy Affect the Connectedness of Global Financial Markets?

Zhou, Hang; Bian, Jiangze; Qin, Qilin; Yu, Mei - 2022

As global financial integration deepens, shocks from a local market can generate global spillover effects more easily. Historical episodes, such as the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic show that the connectedness of financial markets is closely related to global systemic risks....

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Contagion Effects of the U.S. Subprime Crisis on International Stock Markets

Hwang, Inchang - 2010

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 during the U.S. subprime crisis. We also find...

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Commentary on prospects for global financial reporting

Barth, Mary E. - 2015

This commentary reviews the status of the global use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), including in the US, and offers thoughts on prospects for global financial reporting. Many countries require or permit the use of IFRS, but the goal of truly global, high quality financial...

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America First? : a US-centric view of global capital flows

McQuade, Peter; Schmitz, Martin - 2019

with those of the rest of the world. We analyse the relative importance of US, country-specific, and global variables as …. Global and national risk indicators perform better in explaining "rest of the world" flows. Moreover, we find that the … correlation between US and rest of the world flows peaks in periods of elevated uncertainty. We interpret our findings as evidence …

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International Stock Return Predictability : The Role of U.S. Volatility Risk

Deng, Yizhe; Jiang, Fuwei; Wang, Yunqi; Zhou, Ti - 2022

This paper studies the intertemporal relation between U.S. volatility risk and international equity risk premia. We show that a common volatility risk factor constructed from the option-implied U.S. forward variances positively and significantly predicts future stock market returns of the...

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