Using a broad data set of 20 US dollar exchange rates and order flow of institutional investors over 14 years, we construct a measure of global liquidity risk in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Our FX liquidity measure may be seen as the analog of the well-known Pastor–Stambaugh liquidity...

This paper examines the demand for money under conditions of very high inflation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru during the 1970s and 1980s. We test whether the monetary and inflationary experiences of these countries can be adequately characterized by the Cagan (1956) model, using...

This paper investigates the extent to which financial markets in the Pacific Basin Region have become more integrated, by analyzing the comovements of real interest rates. The paper uses cointegration and error correction models and draws inferences on the degree of capital market integration by...

The paper takes an asset pricing perspective to investigate the equity market comovement and contagion at the sector level during the period 1990-2004 across the regions of Europe, Asia and Latin America. It examines whether unexpected shocks from a particular market, or group of markets, are...

This paper examines stock market linkages of a group of Pacific-Basin countries with U.S. and Japan by estimating the multivariate cointegration model in both the autoregressive and moving average forms over the period 1980-1998. Recursive estimation helps identify the evolution of the linkages....

We study the long-run and short-run dynamics between stock prices and exchange rates and the channels through which exogenous shocks impact on these markets. We apply the analysis to a group of Pacific Basin countries and examine whether foreign exchange controls and the Asian financial crisis...

This paper examines real and financial links simultaneously at the regional and global level for a group of Pacific-Basin countries by analysing the covariance of excess returns on national stock markets over the period 1980-1998. We find overwhelming evidence at the regional and global level...

In this paper we analyze whether handling related securities improves a market maker's information environment and helps to incorporate new information in stock prices. Our empirical tests are focused on New York Stock Exchange specialists and the U.S. share in price discovery of 64 British and...

The paper examines the impact of margins, adjusted for underlying price risk proxied by market volatility, on trading volume and at the same time incorporates the relationship between trading volume and price volatility documented in equities and futures markets. The study estimates bivariate...