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This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...
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United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects …
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Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...
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The harmonisation of fiscal and economic policy within the European Monetary Union (EMU) has had a considerable impact on the economies of member countries in the past decade. In particular, several studies indicate that the proceeding economic integration among euro area countries has important...
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We study sovereign yield dynamics and order flow in the largest euro-area treasury markets. We exploit unique transaction data to explain daily yield changes in the ten-year government bonds of Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany. We use a state space model to decompose these changes into (i) a...
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proposed by Bacchetta and van Wincoop (2003) and allows us to disentangle the liquidity and information effects of order flow … indicate that the strong contemporaneous correlation between order flow and exchange rates is mostly due to liquidity effects …
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Standard economic models hold that exchange rates are influenced by fundamental variables such as relative money supplies, outputs, inflation rates and interest rates. Nonetheless, it has been well documented that such variables little help predict changes in floating exchange rates u0097 that...
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The paper proposes a multi-factor international asset pricing model in which the exchange rate is allowed to be co-determined by a risk factor imperfectly correlated to other priced risks in the economy. The significance of this factor can be established as long as one is able to observe a proxy...
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twentieth century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth …
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studies global bonds to examine the effects of multimarket trading on corporate bond liquidity, prices, and the cost of debt … significant liquidity and price advantage over comparable domestic bonds. On average, global bonds trade at yields 15 to 25 basis … of crisis. Global issues are more liquid, as evidenced by several trade-based liquidity measures, but the liquidity …
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