This paper analyzes the drivers and consequences of sudden stops of capital flows. It focuses on the impact of external vulnerability on the depth and length of sudden stop crises. The authors analyze 43 developing and developed countries between 1993 and 2006. They find evidence that external...

Although there is a consensus about time variation in market betas, it is not clear how this variation should be captured. Several researchers continue to analyze different versions of the conditional CAPM. However, Ghysels (1998) shows that these conditional CAPM models fail to capture the...

We analyze the post-float real exchange rates for a group of OECD countries using the newly developed threshold test and tests for unit roots against stationary but nonlinear alternative by Caner and Hansen ( 2001). These tools help us disentangle the nonlinearity from the nonstationarity...

This is a corrigendum. We correct the mistakes in Basci and Caner, "Are Real Exchange Rates Nonlinear or Non-stationary? Evidence from a New Threshold Unit Root Test" 2005, vol.9.4, Article 2.

This is a corrigendum. We correct the mistakes in Basci and Caner, "Are Real Exchange Rates Nonlinear or Non-stationary? Evidence from a New Threshold Unit Root Test" 2005, vol.9.4, Article 2.

Model selection and estimation are crucial parts of econometrics. This article introduces a new technique that can simultaneously estimate and select the model in generalized method of moments (GMM) context. The GMM is particularly powerful for analyzing complex datasets such as longitudinal and...

[eng] The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most transparent funds of its type. It has performed like a balanced mutual fund whose investments have been no more disruptive to financial markets than those of other institutional investors. There is a...

This paper investigates the Generalized Empirical Likelihood (GEL) estimators when there are local violations of the exogeneity condition (near exogeneity) in the case of many weak moments. We also examine the tradeoff between the degree of violation of the exogeneity and the number of nearly...

[eng] Performance and Transparency of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund . The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is widely acknowledged ta be one of the most transparent funds of its type. It has performed like a balanced mutual fund whose investments have been no more disruptive to...