The paper addresses two core questions: do investment banks' recommendations have an impact on the allocation of portfolio flows in the emerging-markets asset class? Above all, are these recommendations related to the business of investment banks? In order to answer these questions, we...

This paper focuses on the interactions between the political cycle and capital markets in emerging economies, examining the way in which Wall Street strategists react to major Latin American political events, specifically presidential elections. For this purpose we construct a database of all...

Les recommandations des banques d’investissement concernant les emprunts publics des pays émergents tendent à devenir particulièrement défavorables à l’approche d’une élection. Cette aversion est en fait davantage liée à l’incertitude que génère l’évènement qu’à la...

Are the financial markets politically correct? In other words, do they have preferences when it comes to political regimes or partisans? This issue has often been explored with regard to foreign direct investment (FDI) or public development aid, but rarely in relation to portfolio flows in...

Les emprunts obligataires ont supplanté les emprunts bancaires et autres sources de capitaux tels que l’aide au développement, par exemple, comme première source de financement pour les marchés émergents.

Bond financing has replaced bank loans and other sources of capital flows as a major source of funding for emerging markets. This shift has been particularly impressive in Latin America. Disentangling the dynamics of emerging bond markets and the information flow about them has attracted the...

The paper addresses two core questions: do investment banks’ recommendations have an impact on the allocation of portfolio flows in the emerging-markets asset class? Above all, are these recommendations related to the business of investment banks? In order to answer these questions, we...

The paper addresses two core questions: do recommendations have an impact on the allocation of flows in the asset class? Above all, are we facing in this asset class major problems of asymmetries of information? In order to answer these questions, we used untapped and rich datasets. We...

The paper addresses two core questions: do recommendations have an impact on the allocation of flows in the asset class? Above all, are we facing in this asset class major problems of asymmetries of information? In order to answer these questions, we used untapped and rich datasets. We...

Between November 2009 and December 2012, no fewer than 16 presidential elections will be held in the region. The series will begin with Chile in December of this year, and will end with elections in Mexico and Venezuela between August and December 2012. This column explores the changing dynamics...