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Are importing and exporting complements or substitutes in an emerging economy? The case of Colombia
2021
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of two trading strategies (exporting and importing) on total factor productivity (TFP) and the potential complementarity/substitutability effects of these strategies. In order to assess these effects, robust estimates of TFP are obtained using a general method of moments approach that explicitly determines the ability of a firm's trading experience to affect productivity. Data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey spanning from 2007 to 2016 is used for Colombian manufacturing firms. Our estimation results suggest that, regardless of the technological intensity of the industry in which the firm operates, active trading strategies (exporting o…
Economic studies on higher education and productivity
2015
Economic policy uncertainty effects for forecasting future real economic activity
2018
Recently introduced measures for Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) included in the data from 1997 - 2016 have a role in forecasting out-of-sample values for the future real economic activity for both the euro area and the UK economies. The inclusion of EPU measures, either for the US, the UK or for overall European economies, improves the forecasting ability of models based on standard financial market information, especially for the period before the 2008 global crisis. However, during and after the crisis period, the slope of the yield curve and excess stock market returns improves the out-of-sample forecast performance the most compared to an AR-benchmark model. Hence, the EPU informatio…
Stock Market Integration and the Global Financial Crisis
2014
We study the dynamics of stock market integration and its consequences during the recent financial crisis for twenty-three developed and sixty emerging markets. We find that integration increased slightly for emerging markets but decreased for developed countries during the crisis. Moreover, we argue that the high degree of integration propagated the crisis across the global financial markets at the beginning of the crisis, but it had little effect during the crisis. We also find that integration is mostly affected by financial openness, the institutional environment, and global financial uncertainty but that these determinants vary slightly between emerging and developed markets.
Small fish in big ponds : Connections of green finance assets to commodity and sectoral stock markets
2022
We analyze return and volatility connectedness of the rising green asset and the well-established US industry stock and commodity markets from September 2010 to July 2021. We find that the time-varying return and volatility connectedness have exhibited serious crisis jumps. Some individual assets of both the green and commodity markets are in connection to the US sectoral stock market returns, and the volatility connections are even more common than the return connections. Furthermore, some financial and economic uncertainty indicators manifest positive impacts from the volatility of some `big pond markets for e.g. commodities, whereas some others affect the connectedness negatively. Additi…
Essays on emerging financial markets, political institutions and development differences
2014
Determinants of current account balances
2011
The institutional heterogeneity of Europe as a regional market
2018
Le differenti tipologie di investimento finanziario
2017
Il vademecum "La tutela del risparmio" è realizzato nell'ambito del Programma Generale di intervento “Sicilia e consumatori: diritti e tutele” della Regione Siciliana. Il vademecum illustra le principali tipologie di investimento finanziario, con un approfondimento sugli strumenti più rischiosi come gli strumenti derivati e gli investimenti in valuta estera. Nel vademecum vengono delineati i profili essenziali della tutela del risparmio nell'ordinamento italiano, nonchè il diritto all’informazione da parte dei risparmiatori-consumatori e dei connessi obblighi informativi da parte delle banche e degli altri operatori finanziari.