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Financial Restructuring in Banking and Corporate Sector Crises : What Policies to Pursue?

Claessens, Stijn - 2001

We review the literature on resolving bank and corporate sector crises to identify government policies that affect the depth of a crisis and the ease and sustainability of recovery, and to analyze their fiscal cost. A consistent framework - including sufficient resources for loss-absorption and...

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Does Financial Liberalization Spur Growth?

Bekaert, Geert - 2001

We show that equity market liberalizations, on average, lead to a one percent increase in annual real economic growth over a five-year period. The liberalization effect is not spuriously accounted for by macro-economic reforms and does not reflect a business cycle effect. Although financial...

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The Dynamics of Emerging Market Equity Flows

Bekaert, Geert - 1999

We study the interrelationship between capital flows, returns, dividend yields and world interest rates in 20 emerging …

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Dating the Integration of World Equity Markets

Bekaert, Geert - 1998

Measuring the integration of world capital markets is notoriously difficult. For example, regulatory changes which … equity market becomes financially integrated with world capital markets. We find endogenous break dates that are very … markets are on average larger and more liquid than before; returns are more volatile and more highly correlated with the world …

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Time-Varying World Market Integration

Bekaert, Geert - 1994

-switching model, allows us to describe expected returns in countries that are segmented from world capital markets in one part of the …

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The Implications of First-Order Risk Aversion for Asset Market Risk Premiums

Bekaert, Geert - 1994

Existing general equilibrium models based on traditional expected utility preferences have been unable to explain the excess return predictability observed in equity markets, bond markets, and foreign exchange markets. In this paper, we abandon the expected-utility hypothesis in favor of...

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Good Carry, Bad Carry

Bekaert, Geert - 2019

We distinguish between "good" and "bad" carry trades constructed from G-10 currencies. The good trades exhibit higher Sharpe ratios and sometimes positive return skewness, in contrast to the bad trades that have both substantially lower Sharpe ratios and highly negative return skewness....

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Currency Factors

Aloosh, Arash - 2019

additional factors, a commodity currency factor and a "world" factor based on trading volumes, fits currency basket correlations …

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The Determinants of Stock and Bond Return Comovements

Baele, Lieven - 2009

We study the economic sources of stock-bond return comovements and its time variation using a dynamic factor model. We identify the economic factors employing a semi-structural regime-switching model for state variables such as interest rates, inflation, the output gap, and cash flow growth. We...

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Financial Openness and Productivity

Bekaert, Geert - 2009

Financial openness is often associated with higher rates of economic growth. We show that the impact of openness on factor productivity growth is more important than the effect on capital growth. This explains why the growth effects of liberalization appear to be largely permanent, not...

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