With the 1998 current account deficit approaching $225 billion, attention is again focusing on the deficit's impact on U.S. jobs. Although a high deficit does adversely affect employment in export- and import-competing industries, it also means that considerable foreign capital is flowing into...

We investigate the economically and statistically significant positive correlation between monthly foreign purchases of Mexican stocks and Mexican stock returns. We find that 1 percent of market capitalization surprise foreign inflow is associated with a 13 percent increase in Mexican stock...

Recent literature suggests the traditional measurement of the degree of international capital mobility by the size of the saving-investment correlation to be flawed. We employ Granger causality tests to measure the degree of capital mobility using quarterly data for a sample of 7 industrialised...

Extensive real estate studies have demonstrated the linkages between direct property and capital assets particularly REITs by emphasising on the common movements in prices. However, the study of volatility spillover between these assets is relatively limited. This study aims to investigate the...