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This volume contains a collection of papers, commentaries and speeches concerning the first decade of the euro and the recent global financial crisis.
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A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...
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This volume contains a collection of papers, commentaries and speeches that review the strategic and operational decisions taken by the central banks to combat the crisis and that reflect on the lessons for the future. The contributions are grouped around five broad topics: monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209883
This volume contains a collection of papers, commentaries and speeches that review the strategic and operational decisions taken by the central banks to combat the crisis and that reflect on the lessons for the future. The contributions are grouped around five broad topics: monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209884
and their implementation, payment systems and private market structures) and its implications for intraday volatility …, quoting activity, trading volume and bid-ask spreads in the overnight deposit segment. Volatility and spreads increase right … volatility and no signs of market power or adverse selection. Spreads and volatility were high at the end of the reserve …
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, we implement the mixture of log-normals model and a volatility-smoothing method. We discuss the time series behaviour of … second main observation is a significant spillover of volatility, as the implied volatility and kurtosis of the DAX RND are … mostly driven by the volatility of US stock prices. JEL Classification: C22, C51, G13, G15 …
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equity returns, bond yields and measures of market risk such as implied volatility, skewness and kurtosis. Our main finding …
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This paper empirically analyzes the political, institutional and economic sources of public deficit volatility. Using … show that higher public deficit volatility is typically associated with higher levels of political instability and less … democracy. In addition, public deficit volatility tends to be magnified for small countries, in the outcome of hyper …
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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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future exchange rates. The purpose of this paper is to systematically assess the quality of option based volatility, interval … option prices. We find that the OTC implied volatilities explain a much larger share of the variation in realized volatility …
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