This paper investigates the direction of information flow between world stock markets during the recent financial crisis by conducting Granger causality tests in a three variables system. We employ daily rates of return for three representative stock market indices: S&P 500 for the US, BET-C for...

Since 1980, foreign investors have timed their purchases and sales of U.S. Treasurys to yield particularly low returns. Their annual dollar-weighted returns, measured by IRRs, are around 3% lower than a buy-and-hold strategy over the same horizon. In comparison, the IRRs achieved by domestic...