Aufstrebende Kapitalmärkte (Emerging Capital Markets) erhalten seit der Jahrtausendwende wieder zunehmende Kapitalzuflüsse von internationalen Portfolioinvestoren. Für diese Entwicklung können zwei Hauptgründe angeführt werden. Zum einen sind aufstrebende Kapitalmärkte auf Grund ihres...

This paper analyzes the determination of global equity portfolios and stock returns in the context of imperfectly integrated stock markets. We consider a continuous-time, two-country endowment economy, where the level of financial integration is captured by a proportional tax on foreign...

The euro area remains in a state of flux and appears to be unsustainable in its present form. The outcome of the crisis may be unknown for years and a judgement on the project’s success or failure may be out of reach for decades.In the meantime, analysts, portfolio managers and traders will...

This paper defines financial market spillovers as the comovement between two countries’ financial markets and analyzes financial market spillovers over the period 2001-12 through four channels: bilateral portfolio investment, bilateral trade, home bias, and country concentration. The paper...