The recent crisis highlighted the importance of globally active banks in linking markets. One channel for this linkage is through how these banks manage liquidity across their entire banking organization. We document that funds regularly flow between parent banks and their affiliates in diverse...

Die Weltwirtschaft befindet sich in einer der dramatischsten Episoden ihrer jüngsten Geschichte. Die weltweite Produktion von Gütern und Dienstleistungen verzeichnet einen Einbruch in einem seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929/30 nicht gekannten Ausmaß. Aber neben diesen ökonomischen Effekten...

The purpose of the paper was to present the decoupling hypothesis which says that the performance of the emerging economies becomes relatively independent from the changes in advanced economies, and to empirically verify this hypothesis. The Christiano-Fitzgerald band-pass filter and spectral...