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High and low prices and the range in the European stock markets : a long-memory approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Poza, Carlos - 2019

This paper uses fractional integration techniques to examine the stochastic behaviour of high and low stock prices in Europe and then to test for the possible existence of long-run linkages between them by looking at the range, i.e., the difference between the two logged series. Specifically,...

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Persistence, non-linearities and structural breaks in European stock market indices

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Poza, Carlos - 2019

This paper examines persistence, structural breaks and non-linearities in the case of five European stock market indices, namely the FTSE100 (UK), DAX30 (Germany), CAC40 (France), IBEX35 (Spain) and FTSE MIB40 (Italy), using fractional integration methods. The empirical results provide no...

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Cycles and long-range behaviour in the European stock markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Poza, Carlos - 2019

This paper uses a modelling framework which includes two singularities (or poles) in the spectral density function, one corresponding to the long-run (zero) frequency and the other to the cyclical (non-zero) frequency. The adopted specification is very general, since it allows for fractional...

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Macro news and bond yield spreads in the Euro area

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2014

This paper analyses the effects of newspaper coverage of macro news on the spread between the yield on the 10-year German Bund and on sovereign bonds in eight countries belonging to the euro area (Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) using daily data for...

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Particulate matter 10 (PM10): persistence and trends in eight European capitals

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2020

This paper examines the statistical properties of daily PM10 in eight European capitals (Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Helsinki, London, Luxembourg, Madrid and Paris) over the period 2014-2020 by applying a fractional integration framework; this is more general than the standard approach based on...

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Brexit and uncertainty in financial markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Trani, … - 2018

persistence has declined after Brexit. These findings highlight the importance of completing swiftly the negotiations with the EU …

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Prospects for a monetary union in the East Africa community : some empirical evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Carcel, Hector; Gil-Alaña, … - 2018

This paper examines G-PPP and business cycle synchronization in the East Africa Community with the aim of assessing the …

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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Euro Area

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Onorante, Luca; Paesani, Paolo - 2009

This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates the linkages between them in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in...

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Price formation on the EuroMTS platform

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2010

This paper examines the process of price discovery in the MTS system, which builds on the parallel quoting of euro-denominated government securities on a number of (relatively large) domestic markets and on a (relatively small) European marketplace (EuroMTS). Using twenty-seven months of daily...

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EU banks rating assignments : is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our … aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are … intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst "new" EU countries typically have lower ratings than "old" ones, after …

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