This paper examines the cross-currency linkage of LIBOR-OIS spreads. We consider daily spread data in five major currencies for the period of March 1, 2006 to Nov 11, 2008. The impulse response analysis is conducted in a multivariate setting, adopting the bias-corrected bootstrap as a means of...

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...

Recent studies find that target firm returns are reduced following sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment. Although risk is also reduced following SWF investment, they find that SWF investment is associated with a reduction in the compensation of risk.In this paper, weexamine the hypothesis that...

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