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integration has been a major vector of contagion, and even more so when cross-border bank lending was primarily short …-term. Vulnerability to contagion has been lower when global liquidity has been abundant, underlining the importance of major central banks …, typically through their effects on the composition of the external financial account or on the vulnerability to contagion …
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Asia is a region whose financial integration has not kept pace with real integration. Asias relative financial isolation has limited its exposure to the direct fallout of the global financial crisis (though it did not prevent trade links from exerting severe contractionary impact). Does this...
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We estimate the long-run relationships among NAFTA capital market returns and then calculate the weights of a “time-varying minimum variance portfolio†that includes the Canadian, Mexican, and USA capital markets between March 2007 and March 2009, a period of intense turbulence in...
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With a view to establishing a Capital Markets Union (CMU), efforts to integrate (private) capital markets and private risk-sharing in the European Union are underway. However, the single (capital) market will be burdened by a perennial potential threat to sovereign bond market stability in the...
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This paper develops composite indicators of financial integration within the euro area for both price-based and quantity-based indicators covering money, bond, equity and banking markets. Prior to aggregation, individual integration indicators are harmonised by applying the probability integral...
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With a view to establishing a Capital Markets Union (CMU), efforts to integrate (private) capital markets and private risk-sharing in the European Union are underway. However, the single (capital) market will be burdened by a perennial potential threat to sovereign bond market stability in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051172
This paper develops composite indicators of financial integration within the euro area for both price-based and quantity-based indicators covering money, bond, equity and banking markets. Prior to aggregation, individual integration indicators are harmonised by applying the probability integral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104477
As international financial integration gathers pace, interconnectivity has increased tremendously among financial institutions, financial markets and financial systems, a phenomenon to which the recent global financial crisis perhaps provided the best testimony. The interconnectivity among...
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interbank market is a potential important driving factor in the risk and impact of interbank contagion. We investigate the … evolution of contagion risk for the Belgian banking system over the period 1993-2002 using detailed information on aggregate … decreased the risk and impact of contagion. Moreover, an increase in the proportion of cross-border interbank assets has lowered …
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interbank market is a potential important driving factor in the risk and impact of interbank contagion. We investigate the … evolution of contagion risk for the Belgian banking system over the period 1993-2002 using detailed information on aggregate … decreased the risk and impact of contagion. Moreover, an increase in the proportion of cross-border interbank assets has lowered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506565