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This online appendix to "Violations of Uncovered Interest Rate Parity and International Exchange Rate Dependences" includes the copula density function for the Clayton-Frank-Gumbel mixture copula and the details for the likelihood based estimation of the multivariate currency basket log returns....
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This paper identifies supply and demand shocks that are specific to the oil-market, and separates them from economy-wide shocks that affect the demand for many asset classes, including oil. The shocks are identified by the sign and magnitude of the correlation between daily oil price percent...
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Over the course of the last decade, the price of gold has exploded. Recently, however, prices started to fall again. The reversal of this trend has spurred a heated debate between proponents and opponents of gold as an investment. Using time series analysis, we further examine the role of gold...
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We find that exogenous structural shocks caused by terrorist attacks, wars, political turmoil and gold market specific events have a strong role to play in the analysis of dynamic relationships between gold and stock market returns. Our main finding is that the interaction between the gold...
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This paper utilizes the daily prices of the market indices in 57 countries across the world from 2nd January 1997 to 30th August 2012 to examine the potential stock market integration structure by applying a network visualization approach (with both MST network and Graph network), we seek to...
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Current financialization process involving commodity markets spurred controversial issues among policy-makers, practitioners and scholars about spillover effects on the price levels, and inherent consequences on the whole economy. In this debate, it is possible to distinguish between two basic...
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Several unique data sets are brought together to build approximate daily realized volatility estimates back to the early 1930's. Estimators are tested extensively on modern data to see how well they line up with common estimators using high frequency pricing information. Estimators are also...
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In this paper, I have investigated the out of sample forecast performance for a case study on the determination of the nominal exchange rate for USD vis-à-vis IN¬R under VEC, VAR (in first difference) and Bayesian VAR specification with the help of set of economic theories. The forecast...
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This paper explores how the returns of country exchange traded funds (ETFs) respond to global risk factors in different market regimes. We consider the ETFs for the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Australia from May 30, 2000 to March 31, 2011. To answer this question, we...
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This paper extends the economic growth model tested by Levine and Zervos (1998) by including a measure for capital allocation efficiency proxied by stock price informativeness. Using a sample of 59 countries, this study finds that stock price informativeness as measured by firm-specific return...
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