Over the last fifteen years, emerging economies have experienced abrupt changes in bond spreads and large movements in capital flows. We propose a simple general equilibrium model where international investors hire fund managers to invest their capital either in the bonds of an emerging economy or in a riskless asset. We model the emerging economy as a small-open economy subject to an aggregate...

This paper surveys the markets for financial transmission rights (FTRs) around the world. FTRs are used to hedge the costs associated with transmission congestion. Currently these rights are in use in PJM, New York and New England. A variant of financial transmission rights, which has both a physical and a financial aspect, was introduced in California in 2000. Similarly, flowgates were introdu...

I find a topological arrangement of stocks traded in a financial market which has associated a meaningful economic taxonomy. The topological space is a graph connecting the stocks of the portfolio analyzed. The graph is obtained starting from the matrix of correlation coefficient computed between all pairs of stocks of the portfolio by considering the synchronous time evolution of the differenc...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the role of financial assets in allowing individual agents of an economy to make at time 0 some limited commitments into the future which, at some extent, redistribute their revenue among several time periods and different states of the world. It is done studying in different contexts the general equilibrium of a simple two-period exchange model, under we...

This paper analyzes the market for financial information and the incentive of institutions, such as Reuters, to provide information to traders in decentralized financial markets. We derive the following results. (i) The optimal selling strategy consists of selling identical information (Reuters’ screen) to all traders. (ii) The traders buy information from the same providers. If the traders may...

This is the first of two articles that provide a broad overview of the structure and general characteristics of the money and bond markets in New Zealand. This first article briefly reviews the financial markets as a whole and describes the deregulation that has occurred in New Zealand’s financial markets over recent years. Crown securities on issue are examined in some depth and the article co...

The research on spillover effect in financial markets is frontier theory and technology. The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 affects the stock markets deeply. But, the economic consequences are different among some cross-markets. As an emerging high-speed growth securities market established in 1990, the Chinese securities market has developed significantly. Again in the current internatio...

The financial market and turbulence have been broadly compared on account of the same quantitative methods and several common stylized facts they shared. In this paper, the She-Leveque (SL) hierarchy, proposed to explain the anomalous scaling exponents deviated from Kolmogorov monofractal scaling of the velocity fluctuation in fluid turbulence, is applied to study and quantify the hierarchical ...

financial markets has a major impact on MNCs. First, this type of trading can influence the level of interest rates in a specific country (and therefore the cost of debt to an MNC) because it affects the amount of funds available there. Second, it can affect the price of an MNC’s stock (and therefore the cost of equity to an MNC) because it influences the demand for the MNC’s stock. Third, it e...

We study optimal enforcement in credit markets in which the only threat facing a defaulting borrower is restricted access to financial markets. We solve for the optimal level of exclusion, and link it to observed institutional arrangements. Regulation in this environment must accomplish two objectives. First, it must prevent borrowers from defaulting on one bank and transferring their resources...