There is an ongoing intraregional attempt to develop bond markets in Asia. This is to some extent a result of the Asian financial crisis, which showed the need for well-functioning fixed income markets in the region. This paper analyzes the relationships among four Asian bond markets....

This paper uses high frequency exchange rate data for a group of thirteen Latin American countries in order to analyze volatility comovements. Particular interest is posed on understanding the existence of a common volatility process during the 1995-2008 period. The analysis relies on bivariate...

Financial integration of emerging economies is on the rise and so are financial and monetary spillovers, especially those originating from US economic policy decisions and the (related) evolution of the US dollar. We revisit the “trilemma” vs. “dilemma” hypothesis and assess whether, and...

Historically, the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) has fluctuated throughout the years, and its fluctuations have been very much interrelated with other forex markets. Since the IDR fluctuations impact national economic growth, investigating the movements of forex markets with respect to the IDR provides...

This study empirically examines how exchange rate shocks affect firms' competitiveness in the small, export-oriented country of Finland. Specifically, using Sweden as a benchmark and controlling for cross-country sector and industry effects, the Forex competition hypothesis is tested using the...

Security market integration and spanning failures can arise from differential informational access or from administrative barriers to different types of investor, e.g. onshore versus offshore. However, where sufficient motivation exists, a parallel market could arise, where offshore investors...

This article shows that global financial markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital and real interest rate equalisation across countries and that the integration of both global financial markets and global goods markets is needed to achieve net transfers of capital...

In this paper, we empirically assess the importance of gravity-type variables and measures of macroeconomic and financial volatilities in explaining portfolio holdings denominated across the main global currencies: US dollar (USD), euro (EUR), Pound sterling (GBP), Japanese yen (JPY) and Swiss...

This paper presents evidence that the bid-ask spreads in euro rates increased relative to the corresponding bid-ask spreads in the German mark (DM) prior to the creation of the currency union. This comes with a decrease in transaction volume in the euro rates relative to the previous DM rates....

Foreign direct investment (FDI) by banks into Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has increased considerably, resulting in foreign bank ownership of up to 90% in some countries in the region. Most CEE countries also recorded a substantial rise in foreign currency (FX) denominated credit, leading to...