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A panic-prone pack? : the behavior of emerging market mutual funds

Borensztein, Eduardo; Gelos, Gaston - 2001

This paper explores the behavior of emerging market mutual funds using anovel database covering the holdings of individual funds over the periodJanuary 1996 to March 1999. An examination of individual crises shows that,on average, funds withdrew money one month prior to the events. Thedegree of...

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Net capital flows and portfolio diversification

Bürgi, Constantin; Bobić, Vida; Wu, Min - 2019

This paper presents a new explanation for the sustained pattern of international net capital flows by modifying the standard consumption capital asset pricing model (CCAPM) to create net capital flows beyond the initial period. In addition to the well established link between asset returns and...

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International financial market integration, asset compositions, and the falling exchange rate pass-through

Enders, Almira; Enders, Zeno; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2017

This paper provides an explanation for the observed decline of the exchange rate pass-through into import prices by modeling the effects of financial market integration on the optimal choice of the pricing currency in the context of rigid nominal goods prices. Contrary to previous literature, we...

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Unbalanced financial globalization

Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … capital allocation, a 2.8% lower world GDP, a 12% rise in the cross-country dispersion of GDP per capita, lower wages in …

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Barriers to global capital allocation

Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021

benchmark calibration, we estimate that the capital misallocation induced by these barriers reduces World GDP by 7%, compared to …-country inequality: the standard deviation of log capital per employee is 80% higher than it would be in a world without barriers to …

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Equity fund flows and stock market returns in the US before and after the global financial crisis : a VAR-GARCH-in-mean Analysis

Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2016

The 2008-2009 global financial crisis has raised new questions about the relationship between equity fund flows and stock market returns. This paper analyses it using US monthly data over the period 2000:1-2015:08. A VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean model with a BEKK representation is estimated, and a...

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is noncompulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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Does financial integration spur economic growth? : New evidence from the first era of financial globalization

Schularick, Moritz (contributor); … - 2006

Does international financial integration boost economic growth? The question has been discussed controversially for a long time. As of yet, robust evidence for a positive impact is lacking (Edison et al., 2002). However, there is substantial narrative evidence from economic history that...

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Cross-border banking in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2016

We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...

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Global and regional financial integration in emerging Asia : evidence from stock markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; You, Kefei - 2017

This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean...

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