This paper investigates to what extent Chinese monetary policy is constrained by the dollar peg. To this end, we use a cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates are driven by the Fed's policy. In a second step, we estimate a monetary model for China, in which we include...

Die Beziehung zwischen Rechnungslegung und Kapitalmarkt ist in den letzten Jahren durch mehrere Entwicklungen stark beeinflusst worden. So ruft die Globalisierung der Kapitalmärkte bei den Anlegern ein Bedürfnis nach international vergleichbaren Rechnungslegungsinformationen hervor. Zugleich...

The finance industry has grown. Financial markets have become more liquid. Information technology has improved. But have prices become more informative? Using stock and bond prices to forecast earnings, we find that the information content of market prices has not increased since 1960. The...

This paper analyzes sovereign risk contagion in the Eurozone using an extension to the canonical model for contagion proposed by Pesaran and Pick (2007) and Metiu (2012) to allow for time-varying coefficients. This becomes necessary due to changes in the risk pricing of sovereign bonds since the...