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Currency Risk Premia in Global Stock Markets.

Roache, Shaun K - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PREVIOUS LITERATURE -- III. MODEL SPECIFICATION -- IV. ESTIMATION -- V. DATA AND PRELIMINARY STATISTICS -- VI. MAIN RESULTS -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

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Decomposing Climate Risks in Stock Markets

Yang, Yuanchen - 2023

Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to the world economy and the global financial system. This paper sets out to understand and quantify the impact of climate mitigation, with a focus on climate-related news, which represents an important information source that investors use to...

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Carbon Policy and Stock Returns: Signals from Financial Markets

Hengge, Martina - 2023

This paper uses institutional features of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and highfrequency data on more than 2,000 publicly listed European firms over 2011-21 to study the impact of carbon policy on stock returns. After extracting the surprise component of regulatory actions, we show that...

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High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation: Shrinkage Toward a Diagonal Target

Ando, Sakai - 2023

This paper proposes a novel shrinkage estimator for high-dimensional covariance matrices by extending the Oracle Approximating Shrinkage (OAS) of Chen et al. (2009) to target the diagonal elements of the sample covariance matrix. We derive the closed-form solution of the shrinkage parameter and...

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Systemic Risk and Asymmetric Responses in the Financial Industry

López-Espinosa, Germán; Rubia, Antonio; Valderrama, Laura - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

To date, an operational measure of systemic risk capturing non-linear tail comovement between system-wide and individual bank returns has not yet been developed. This paper proposes an extension of the so-called CoVaR measure that captures the asymmetric response of the banking system to...

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Monetization in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Kinoshita, Noriaki; McLoughlin, Cameron - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

The degree of an economyâ€™s monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal...

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The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity

Badia, Marialuz Moreno; Slootmaekers, Veerle - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The global financial crisis has reopened the debate on the potential spillover effects from the financial sector to the real economy. This paper adds to that debate by providing new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute...

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The Impact of Macroeconomic Announcementson Emerging Market Bonds

Andritzky, Jochen R.; Bannister, Geoffrey J.; Tamirisa, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper examines how emerging bond markets react to macroeconomic announcements. Global bond spreads respond to rating actions and changes in global interest rates rather than domestic data and policy announcements. All announcements affect market volatility. Data and policy announcements...

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Characterizing Global Investors' Risk Appetite for Emerging Market Debt During Financial Crises

González-Hermosillo, Brenda; Martin, Vance; Dungey, Mardi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

The effects of unanticipated movements in global risk on nine emerging bond markets are investigated. The components of global risk are volatility, credit, and liquidity risks. Country and contagion risks are also studied individually. A historical decomposition of bond spreads is used to...

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Stock Returns and Output Growth in Emerging and Advanced Economies

Mauro, Paolo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper studies the correlation between output growth and lagged stock returns in a panel of emerging market … economies and advanced economies. It finds that the correlation is as strong in emerging market economies as in advanced …, the paper finds that the strength of the correlation between output growth and lagged stock returns is significantly …

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