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Sovereign contagion in Europe : evidence from the CDS market
Manasse, Paolo; Zavalloni, Luca - 2013
This paper addresses the following questions. Is there evidence of financial contagion in the Eurozone? To what extent … a country's vulnerability to contagion depends on "fundamentals" as opposed the government's "credibility"? We look at … matter concerning the Euro Zone. Second, differences in vulnerability to contagion within the Eurozone are even more …
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Banks, markets, and financial stability
Eder, Armin; Fecht, Falko; Pausch, Thilo - 2014
We use a Diamond/Dybvig-based model with two banks operating in separate regions connected by a common asset market in which banks and sophisticated depositors invest. We study the effect of a potential run (crisis) and subsequent fire sales on the asset price in both the crisis and no-crisis...
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How does contagion affect general equilibrium asset prices?
Branger, Nicole; Kraft, Holger; Meinerding, Christoph - 2013 - This version: March 13, 2013
This paper analyzes the equilibrium pricing implications of contagion risk in a Lucastree economy with recursive … endowment shocks and regime switches. Moreover, contagion risk reduces the risk-free rate by around 0.5%. We also derive … analyze cross-sectional effects of contagion risk qualitatively. We find that heterogeneity among the assets with respect to …
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International equity flows and returns
Albuquerque, Rui; Bauer, Gregory H.; Schneider, Martin - 2004
This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636533
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Warum ABS schlechte Produkte sein können, aber nicht müssen
Rudolph, Bernd - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 22, pp. 09-14
Bernd Rudolph, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin, zeigt in seinem Kommentar, welche Vor- und Nachteile mit einer Nutzung der ABS-Märkte verbunden sind, wie sie gestaltet und wie sie reguliert sein müssen, damit die genannten Defizite und möglichen...
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Optimal research in financial markets with heterogeneous private information: a rational expectations model
Tinn, Katrin - 2005
This paper investigates prices and endogenous research decision for financial assets. In rational expectations models with public information, higher order beliefs make investors to overweight the public information relative to underlying fundamentals. The extent of this mispricing is higher if...
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The impact of the euro on financial markets
Cappiello, Lorenzo; Hördahl, Peter; Kadareja, Arjan; … - 2006
We assess whether the euro had an impact first on the degree of integration of European financial markets, and, second, on the euro area term structure. We propose two methodologies to measure integration: one relies on time-varying GARCH correlations, and the other one on a regression...
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Financial integration of new EU Member States
Cappiello, Lorenzo; Gérard, Bruno; Kadareja, Arjan; … - 2006
This study assesses the degree of financial integration for a selected number of new EU member states between themselves and with the euro zone. Within the framework of a factor model for market returns, we measure integration as the amount of variance explained by the common factor relative to...
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International stock return comovements
Bekaert, Geert; Hodrick, Robert J.; Zhang, Xiaoyan - 2008
We examine international stock return comovements using country-industry and country-style portfolios as the base portfolios. We first establish that parsimonious risk-based factor models capture the covariance structure of the data better than the popular Heston- ouwenhorst (1994) model. We...
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The reception of public signals in financial markets - what if central bank communication becomes stale?
Ehrmann, Michael; Sondermann, David - 2009
How do financial markets price new information? This paper analyzes price setting at the intersection of private and public information, by testing whether and how the reaction of financial markets to public signals depends on the relative importance of private information in agents’...
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