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We analyze the transmission of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 to 415 country-industry equity portfolios. We use a factor model to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings and residual correlations as indicative of contagion. While we find evidence of...
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The period of the global financial crisis can be characterized by the spillover of negative innovations among stock markets worldwide. Stock markets in Central Europe were not excluded as they are not isolated from global stock markets. Recently published scientific studies dealing with this...
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This paper utilizes the daily prices of the market indices in 57 countries across the world from 2nd January 1997 to 30 …
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We construct a global portfolio investment network by employing network analysis and using bilateral cross-border portfolio holdings data and show that a country's network centrality within this global network has a positive relationship with stock market co-movement. Moreover, network...
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The first Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in 1996 has provided the principal multilateral platform for interregional cooperation between the European and Asian countries. This book examines the equity market integration among 49 ASEM members both in EU and Asia, and to investigate whether such...
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encroachments in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. During this period the world stock markets have fallen, large financial …
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We examine world stock market comovement for 23 countries over 30-years from 1981 to 2010 -- a period that includes … analysis is based on a generalized factor model that allows for country, regional, and world factors. We show that the commonly … used world Fama French factor model with the world value-weighted portfolio as a proxy for the world factor, has biased …
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We show that constraints on using leverage for foreign positions can act as an international investment barrier. Guided by an international CAPM with leverage constraints, we use observed stock prices to measure the variation in the magnitude and the implicit cost of such cross-border funding...
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We investigate the determinants of international stock market co-movements, shedding light on the relevance of politics-related factors. We propose a new characterization for the link connecting politics and financial markets, disentangling two different components: political risk and economic...
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This paper compares the dynamics of the financial integration process as described by different empirical approaches. To this end, a wide range of measures accounting for several dimensions of integration is employed. In addition, we evaluate the performance of each measure by relying on an...
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