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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"International Financial Markets"”.
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International Financial Markets
… country factors including information asymmetry, financial development, short sale and age distribution are also closely related to the volume-variability relation. Specifically, the return-variability relation is stronger in less financially-developed countries with short-sale constraints and …
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Essays on international financial markets interdependence
… the prominence of volatility spillover to financial regulators.Chapter four contributes to the out-of-sample’s stock returns forecasting problem and investigates both its econometric underpinnings and predictability. According to Welch and Goyal (2008) there is little or zero evidence of …
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International Capital Movements During the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution in Britain
… calls forth more research on the issue of international capital movements of the time. Britain experienced a series of regime shifts, most importantly from a peace to a war (1793), from the gold standard to the paper pound by the suspension of cash payments (1797), from the war to a peace …
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The great divide: Exploring the attitudes of sociology and economics faculty toward certain aspects of economic globalization
… globalization – capital control reduction within international financial markets, the proliferation of transnational corporations, the implementation of NAFTA, and the functioning of international trade and financial institutions. My survey data revealed significant differences exist between the …
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Invisible helping hands : how can capital markets access the poor and promote entrepreneurial spirits? : an analysis of international microfinance investment potential and a proposal for securitization in a microfinance global pool
… MFIs grows. Another option for MFIs is tapping international capital markets, international loan and security markets, but there are many barriers to this practice. This paper studies how MFIs and the poor who are seeking capital to foster their entrepreneurial spirits can overcome these …
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Capital structure and debt maturity choices of firms in developing countries
… ratios. We attribute this to the economic and financial environment of the country. Small firms do not consider profitability when making external financing decisions. Firm level determinants are important for large firms regarding capital structure and debt maturity decisions. However, most of …
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Industrial policy, economic growth and unemployment in the wake of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis: The Zambian perspective
… investigates the extent to which the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis impacted economic growth and employment in developing countries, with Zambia as the entity of focus. It further examines the industrial policy strategies employed by the country before, during and after the crisis and whether they …
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Gambling on a bail-out : regulation, moral hazard and time inconsistencies in the international banking system
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the international banking system from a broad perspective. The intent is to study the legal and regulatory framework in modern banking in order to gain insights into key debates that are currently taking place amongst policy planners on an optimum banking …
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The Japanese Financial Diplomacy in the Globalising International Financial Regime
For the Japanese government, financial diplomacy has been always influenced by international economic and political changes that have altered the course of their policy actions. In the Plaza and Louvre Accord era in the late 1980s, establishing the strong G2 (Japan and the US) cooperation was a key …
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Essays on Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Capital Flows
… these economies increased their participation in international financial markets. The first chapter provides a review of the literature on how the study of uncertainty shocks recently became more relevant as a result of higher financial integration experienced by emerging economies. The second …
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Essays on Financial Contracting and Debt
"This thesis investigates some aspects of financial contracting and debt under two different institutional arrangements. The first chapter analyzes the case where the borrower is a wealth-constrained small firm not able to self-finance outright its investment project. The borrower-lender …
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Three essays on sovereign debt and financial markets
… debts by governments in both domestic and international financial markets. In Chapter 1, which is co-authored with Guido Sandleris and Alejandro Van der Ghote, we use a unique dataset on sovereign bond issuances and syndicated bank loans to study the duration and determinants of the periods …
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Teacher responses to rationalisation in the Western Cape Education Department : implications for administration planning and policy
… the term rationalisation is absent from the international literature. The high level of impact that the economics of education has in the provision of education presupposes that, in the "Global Village", world trends and access to international financial markets to fund transformation in …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… from sudden movements of exchange rates, financial flows such as workers' remittances and trade liberalisation are identified to be of particular importance. This thesis is composed of three independent essays that investigate the macroeconomic impacts on small open economies from these …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… from sudden movements of exchange rates, financial flows such as workers' remittances and trade liberalisation are identified to be of particular importance. This thesis is composed of three independent essays that investigate the macroeconomic impacts on small open economies from these …
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Is financialisation inevitable? The power of finance as a policy choice.
… stopped. Over the past two decades the study of ‘financialisation’ has been at the centre of debates in political economy. This body of research has addressed the increasing role and vast expansion of national and international financial markets and analysed the often destructive social and …
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The Relationship Between Capital Inflow Surges and Stock Price Booms in Emerging Countries
<p>Globalization and the trend toward financial liberalization have made emerging economies attractive to foreign capital inflows. Along with the benefits have been costs. At times, excessive capital inflows have led to domestic credit booms and asset price bubbles. There is little doubt that on …
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The effect of corporate bonds spread variability on non-financial firms’ financing structure: further evidence from emerging markets
Understanding the main factors affecting emerging markets economic and financial resilience is of great importance for the global economy stability, financial integration, social development and poverty reduction. In addition, it contributes to a cross-country examination of developmental levels …
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Financial Stability Models of the Irish Banking Sector: Deposit Flows and Property Price Dynamics
Since the global financial crisis, there has been renewed focus on the analysis of sys- temic risk. Systemic risk refers to possibility that vulnerabilities across the financial system and between the financial system and the real economy will be triggered. As a result, intermediation activities …
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Globalizzazione e sistema bancario europeo: Determinanti e impatto sulla redditività
… of European banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007. In this period the relevant regulatory activities that involved the banking sector and the high volatility of global economic and financial environment, represent the macro-institutional framework. In this context, bank …
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