Essays On Financial Markets In Emerging Economies
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Essays On Financial Markets In Emerging Economies
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Author : Esteban Vesperoni
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Essays On Financial Markets In Emerging Economies written by Esteban Vesperoni and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Capital movements categories.
Essays On Financial Markets In Emerging Countries
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Author : Nuno Carvalho Martins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Essays On Financial Markets In Emerging Countries written by Nuno Carvalho Martins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
This dissertation consists of three essays on aspects of financial markets and privatization in emerging countries. In the first essay we consider the decision of a firm in an emerging country whether it should perform a public offer locally or in international markets. The second essay analyzes the method of sale and foreign participation in privatization sales in developing countries and in the third essay we determine the price discount of state-owned initial public offerings.
Financial Crises In Emerging Markets
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Author : Reuven Glick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-04-23
Financial Crises In Emerging Markets written by Reuven Glick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-23 with Business & Economics categories.
The essays in this volume analyze causes of financial crises in emerging markets and different policy responses.
Essays On Markets And Institutions In Emerging Economies
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Author : TAREK FOUAD GHANI
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Essays On Markets And Institutions In Emerging Economies written by TAREK FOUAD GHANI and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Market frictions pervade emerging economies and constrain private sector development. In such settings, formal institutions to help address contract enforcement, property rights and information asymmetries are typically weak or absent. Instead, market participants must rely on informal practices and institutions to mitigate uncertainty, instability and opportunism. For example, personalized exchange relationships are useful when contract enforcement is weak, and cash holdings can be attractive when financial institutions are unreliable. In three specific emerging economy settings, I explore how informal practices and institutions interact with formal market development, and in particular the role that market frictions play in determining outcomes for firms, technologies and employees. The first chapter of this dissertation explores how changes in formal upstream market structure affect the economics of downstream relationships using original data from the ice industry in Sierra Leone. In this setting, a monopoly ice manufacturer sells through independent retailers to fishermen buyers. I demonstrate that a shock that increases upstream competition among manufacturers improves the contractual terms offered by retailers to buyers. Under the monopoly manufacturer, late deliveries are common due to outside demand shocks. To help mitigate this uncertainty, retailers prioritize loyal customers when faced with shortages, and buyers respond by rarely switching retailers. When manufacturers compete, prices fall, quantities increase and services improve with fewer late deliveries. Entry upstream also disrupts collusion among retailers by increasing the value of competing for buyer relationships. Competing retailers expand trade credit provision as a new basis for loyalty, and stable buyer relationships reemerge after a period of intense switching. The findings suggest that market structure shapes informal contractual institutions, and that competition can reconstitute the nature of relationships. The second chapter addresses the relationship between violence and financial decisions in Afghanistan. In particular, I investigate how violence affects the tradeoff between informal cash holdings - which are liquid but insecure - and usage of a more secure but less liquid formal financial account. Using three separate data sources, I find that individuals experiencing violence retain more cash and are less likely to adopt and use mobile money, a new financial technology. First, combining detailed information on the entire universe of mobile money transactions in Afghanistan with administrative records for all violent incidents recorded by international forces, I find a negative relationship between violence and mobile money use. Second, in the context of a randomized control trial, violence is associated with decreased mobile money use and greater cash balances. Third, in financial survey data from nineteen of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, I find that individuals experiencing violence hold more cash. Collectively, the evidence indicates that individuals experiencing violence prefer cash to mobile money. More speculatively, it appears that this is principally because of concerns about future violence. These results emphasize the difficulty of creating robust financial networks in conflict settings. Finally, in the third chapter, I study how informal behaviors interact with incentives to affect employees' decisions to formally save in the context of a large firm in Afghanistan. I analyze a mobile phone-based account that allows savings to be automatically deducted from salaries. Employees who are automatically enrolled in this defined-contribution account are 40 percentage points more likely to contribute than individuals with a default contribution of zero. Analyzing randomly assigned employer matching contributions, I find that the effect of automatic enrollment on participation is approximately equivalent to providing financial incentives equal to a 50 percent match. To understand why default enrollment increases participation, some employees are randomly offered an immediate financial consultation, and others a financial consultation in one week. Employees are more likely to discuss changing their savings contributions in one week, suggesting that defaults raise contributions because of the perceived complexity of financial decisions, and because employees procrastinate in developing a financial plan for the future.
Managing Global Money
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Author : Graham Bird
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-05-24
Managing Global Money written by Graham Bird and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-05-24 with Business & Economics categories.
This collection of articles and papers has been organised under a limited number of specific themes in international financial economics, including balance of payment theory and policy, the activities of the IMF, Special Drawing Rights, the role of the private financial markets, and the international economic order. A unifying theme running through all the essays is that some degree of management of international financial affairs is desirable. The book has a strong policy orientation and should be of interest to students and practitioners of international financial economics alike.
Three Essays On Financial Economics
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Author : Haonan Qu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Three Essays On Financial Economics written by Haonan Qu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
In this dissertation, I explore the interactions between financial markets and real economy activities. In the first chapter, I use the evidence from an emerging market to study how the development of its financial system could affect activities in its real economy. In the second chapter, I look at excess returns in the US treasury bond market and try to understand the economic fundamentals driving the risk premia. In the final chapter, I examine corporate financing decisions using publicly traded firms in the US. The patterns in their financing decision can be partially explained by the information embedded in the financial market. To what extent the development of sophisticated financial markets benefits emerging economies is an open question. In the first chapter, I use a unique data set on all currency derivative transactions by non-financial firms in 2006 and 2007 in Colombia to provide new evidence on one aspect of this question: the effect of participation in derivatives markets on firm capital formation. I use a difference-in-difference propensity score matching approach in order to control for self selection and common trends. I find a large positive effect: firms using currency derivatives invest on average 5.7 percent more, which is about 40 percent of their average investment rate. This investment-enhancing effect is entirely driven by firms taking long positions (i.e. dollar buying) in the derivatives market. For firms taking short positions, typically exporters, the use of derivatives does not have any discernible impact on investment. One possible explanation is the asymmetry in the impact of the exchange rate movement on exporting and importing firms. In the second chapter, I propose a latent variable approach within a present value model to estimate the expected short rate changes and bond risk premia. This approach aggregates information contained in the history of yield spreads and short rate changes to predict future bond excess returns and short rate changes. I find that the factor from Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005) fails to predict bond excess returns when I consider different maturities of the underlying short rate. From the proposed present value model, I find a significant predictable component in short rate changes with R-square ranging from 29 precent to 80 percent, and a moderate R-square about 12 percent for predicting bond excess returns. Both expected short rate changes and bond risk premia have a persistent component, but bond risk premia are more persistent than expected short rate changes. In addition, the bond risk premia become more persistent as I increase the maturity of the underlying short rate. Finally, I explore the source of the time variation in bond risk premia, and find that monetary policy plays an important role. In the third chapter, I document a strongly decreasing time trend in firms' leverage ratio at their IPO years over the period from 1975 to 2006. This trend survives when typical factors are controlled for, including industry fixed effect. Furthermore, I find that firms listed more recently are more adverse to debt financing. A deeper examination shows that the risk associated with firm's operation provides a limited explanation for this finding. However, the underpinnings of the observed pattern of firms' leverage ratios at IPO are still largely unresolved.
Theory And Reality In Financial Economics
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Author : George M. Frankfurter
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2007
Theory And Reality In Financial Economics written by George M. Frankfurter and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
A collection of essays dealing with financial markets' imperfections, and the inability of neoclassical economics to deal with such imperfections. This book argues that financial economics, as based on the tenets of neoclassical economics, cannot answer or solve the real-life problems that people face.
Financial Crises In Emerging Markets
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Author : Alexandre Lamfalussy
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Financial Crises In Emerging Markets written by Alexandre Lamfalussy and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
In this text an international banking expert grapples with issues that surround the trend toward financial globalization and its potential impact on financial fragility. He analyzes four major crisis experiences: Latin America, 1982-3; Mexico, 1994-5; East Asia, 1997-8; and Russia since 1998.
Why The World Economy Needs A Financial Crash And Other Critical Essays On Finance And Financial Economics
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Author : Jan Toporowski
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2010-12
Why The World Economy Needs A Financial Crash And Other Critical Essays On Finance And Financial Economics written by Jan Toporowski and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12 with Business & Economics categories.
The essays in this volume explain the key structural features of financial inflation that give rise to financial crisis. These features include excessive reliance on finance to maintain economic activity through rising asset prices. Reliance on asset inflation induces a preoccupation with property values and a new social divide between the asset-rich and the asset-poor that undermines the culture of the welfare state. When debt can no longer be supported by cash flow from asset markets, excess debt plunges economies into economic depression.
Essays On The World Economy And Its Financial System
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Author : Brigitte Granville
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Release Date : 2000
Essays On The World Economy And Its Financial System written by Brigitte Granville and has been published by Skyhorse Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
Contributors from member organizations of the Tokyo Club discuss the topics "Reflections on the Economies of Three Major Western Players," "Assessment and Responses to Financial Turmoil," "In Search of an Exchange Rate Regime," and "Managing Risks in an Integrating World Financial System." Members of the Tokyo Club include the Brookings Institution (USA), IFO-Institut Fur Wirtschaftsforschung (Germany), Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (France), The Royal Institute of International Affairs (UK), and Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (Japan).