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This article addresses the question whether companies from emerging economies create shareholder value through foreign acquisitions. The popular business press usually views these foreign acquisitions very positively. The stock markets have often reacted negatively to the acquisitions. The...
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This thesis presents two essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I use the August 2007 crisis episode to gauge the effect of financial contracting on real firm behavior. I identify heterogeneity in financial contracting at the onset of the crisis by exploiting ex-ante variation in...
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This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...
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This paper presents fresh findings about key determinants of credit risk of commercial banks in emerging economy banking systems compared with developed economies. Australia, France, Japan and the US represent developed economies; emerging economies are India, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico and...
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, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009 …, middle and high-income countries with a special emphasis on Brazil, Russia, India and China – the BRIC economies. The study … agrifood products for the years 1990 to 2006. The results suggest that China, Russia and Brazil have more income elastic import …
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Several studies have commented on the emergence of a new inter- national monetary system in the post-Asian crisis years. The current international financial crisis has, however, put Bretton Woods II under considerable strain. This paper analyzes the sustainability of the pre- crisis order from...
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The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
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This paper presents a tool to detect the accumulation of risks in emerging market economies based on a synthetic index of 'vulnerability' for three different types of crisis (sovereign, currency and banking crises). To build the index we fi rst use a signalling approach (Auroc) to preselect the...
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Este documento ocasional presenta un marco sencillo, transparente e independiente de modelos para supervisar la acumulación de vulnerabilidades en las economías emergentes que puedan llegar a afectar a la estabilidad financiera de España, a través de vínculos —bien financieros, bien de...
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Las economías emergentes con metas de inflación (MI) se enfrentan a un dilema entre cumplir las condiciones teóricas de una «MI estricta», lo que implica un tipo de cambio totalmente flexible, o seguir una gestión más activa de su moneda («MI flexible»), lo que supone implementar...
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