This study analyzes the long-run cointegration relationship between equity and real estate prices in 30 developed and emerging economies divided into four subpanels related to the income level and the financial market structure. We test for cointegration between equity and real estate prices...

The aim of this work is to find the dynamics of interdependencies and similarities between European, American and Asian stock markets. The investigation covers daily returns of 36 market indices. In order to examine the dependencies between these data, the Markov regime switching copula model...

Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the way it is often measured, it has also led to the...

Currently, the world is facing a continuous process of integration in different aspects and financial markets are no exception to this development. Despite the fact that global integration is gradual, one can find some specific events that might help to accelerate this trend. This paper shows...

Foreign portfolio flows have been blamed for causing instability in emerging markets, especially during financial crises. This study measured the effect of foreign capital flows on volatility and exposure to world market risk in the six largest Latin American stock markets: Argentina, Brazil,...

Resumen:En este estudio se estiman los costos de transacción asociados a la liquidez intradiaria de acciones que pertenecen a seis mercados accionarios latinoamericanos (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Perú) durante un periodo de seis meses (Julio 2009 - Enero 2010). Se encontró...

Resumen: Este trabajo estudia el efecto que tienen los hitos recientes del conflicto armado en el riesgo país de Colombia. Para este fin se utilizan las permutas de incumplimiento crediticio, más conocidas en el mundo de las finanzas por su nombre y sigla en inglés: Credit Default Swaps, CDS....

El presente artículo es la continuación del artículo Generalidades de los ADRs: Un estudio de caso sectorial para empresas de Colombia, México, Brasil y Chile" y al igual que este, es un subproducto de la investigación "Arbitraje con ADRs: Un estudio de caso sectorial para empresas de...

El presente artículo es uno de los productos que surgen a partir de la investigación Arbitraje con ADRs: un Estudio de Caso Sectorial para Empresas de Colombia, México, Brasil y Chile" en el cual se hace un análisis detallado de las generalidades de los ADRs por medio de la búsqueda de las...

We examine the effect of information asymmetry on equity prices in the local A- and foreign Bshare market in China. We construct measures of information asymmetry based on market microstructure models, and find that they explain a significant portion of cross-sectional variation in B-share...