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This paper examines stock market volatility measured by either “beta-volatility” or by the standard deviation of stock returns over 1995-2007. In our dynamic panel data framework, after controlling for size, turnover, and real output growth, we find some support to increases in financial...
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The globalization of capital and product markets has many implications for economic welfare. Countries can specialize in the production of goods for which they have comparative advantages, and capital is allocated more efficiently. However, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the...
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The U.S. could be the source of the global financial risk because it longs risky assets and shorts safe assets in the … international capital market. This paper builds a stylized two-country model to highlight that when the developed country's risk …-bearing capacity improves, it holds more foreign risky assets and issue more risk-free debt. The foreign country's risk …
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We propose a dynamic factor model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze the relationship between global factors and country-specific capital flow dynamics. Studying a global sample of 43 countries from 1994 until 2015, we show that global co-movement of macroeconomic,...
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economy in the last decade and to measure the influence of the world economic crisis of 2009 on their external trade sector … regions of the world economy for the international trading transactions of CEE countries. The exercise revealed that CEE … ratio as a result of the world economic turbulences starting in 2009. Whereas the transition in the current account balance …
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of competitiveness on cross-border capital flows, and shows how stages of economic development and country-specific risk … of its impact varies over different stages of development and across country risk levels …
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We analyze empirically whether trade and financial linkages between two countries increase the synchronization of their business cycles directly or indirectly. In a system of equations, we use a newly processed database on the bilateral linkages of a small open economy, namely Spain. We prefer...
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real effects resulting from a more efficient resource allocation predicted by theory. We find that: (a) financial … systemic real risk realizations; (c) financial integration fosters domestic financial development and the liquidity of equity … in the form of improved countries' growth prospects and lower systemic real risk …
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Global imbalances are defined. Several explanations for the development of large current account deficits and surpluses in key economies during the period after 1997 are discussed, including the saving-investment approach, the intertemporal approach, mercantilism and the Bretton Woods II...
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Macroeconomic studies of international capital flows have focused on (i) net capital flows across countries, (ii) gross capital flows or (iii) more rarely gross inflows (outflows) computed as the sum of foreign (domestic) acquisitions of domestic (foreign) assets in balance of payments data. In...
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