The MICEX Index increased 2.47% in February 2014, reaching its highest value 1507,49 points on February 17, 2014 supported mostly by a rising trend in Gazprom's stock. The MICEX stock exchange market capitalization amounted to Rb 23,92 trillion (36.88% of GDP) by February 25, 2014. The market...

The MICEX Index growth during the last month in 2013 has been governed basically by steady gaining Norilsky Nickel's stocks in response to information about the enterprise's successful performance. In general, however, it is Sberbank's preferred stock that remains most profitable investment at...

The dynamics of the MICEX Index saw no drastic movements last month, averaging 1650 index points, with a 1.2% fall at month's end. The rest of the MICEX Sector Indices, except the MICEX Telecommunications Index, demonstrated negative dynamics too. The MICEX daily average turnover kept shrinking...

The Russian stock market in June was under the negative influence of the dynamics in international stock markets. Reduction in dividends on shares of “Gazprom” to Rb 8.97 per share for the 2011, to 5.99 rubles per share as of a result of 2012) led to a decrease in stock quotations of the...

This paper examines financial market comovements across European transition economies and compares their experience to that of other regions. Correlations in monthly indices of exchange market pressures can partly be explained by direct trade linkages, but not by measures of other fundamentals....

Intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia on foreign exchange markets from 1993 to 1997 is conjectured to have been determined by exchange rate trend correction, exchange rate volatility smoothing and profitability considerations. Using Probit and friction models, we show that these factors...

English Abstract: Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, local lending to French firms by foreign banks experienced a noticeable decline. We use the methodology proposed by Gan (2007) and Khwaja and Mian (2008) to control for borrower heterogeneity and identify the existence of a loan supply...