This paper shows how the rise in individual income risk in the US since the 1980s might help explain the fall in its foreign asset position. The key to this result is endogenous financial deepening in an open economy with participation-constrained domestic financial markets. There, more volatile income makes individuals less inclined to default on financial contracts as this excludes them from ...

We prove that in smooth Markovian continuous–time economies with potentially complete asset markets, Radner equilibria with endogenously complete markets exist. JEL subject classification: D52, D53, G12 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 91B50, 91G80

We propose linear programming tests for spanning and intersection based on stochastic dominance rather than mean-variance analysis. An empirical application investigates the diversification benefits to US investors from emerging equity markets. 5001-6182 Business 4001-4280.7 Finance Management, Business Finance, Corporation Finance Library of Congress Classification (LCC) HG 1576+ Statistics Ba...

Using intra-day data, this paper investigates the contribution to the price discovery of Euro and Japanese Yen exchange rates in three foreign exchange markets based on electronic trading systems: the CME GLOBEX regular futures, E-mini futures, and the EBS interdealer spot market. Contrary to evidence in equity markets and more recent evidence in foreign exchange markets, the spot market is fou...

We extend the Pukthuanthong and Roll (2009) measure of integration to provide an estimate of systemic risk within international equity markets. Our measure indicates an increasing likelihood of market crashes. The conditional probability of market crashes increases substantially following increases of our risk measure. High levels of our risk measure indicate the probability of a global crash i...

Despite success along some dimensions, international business cycle models have difficulty replicating several salient features of international capital flows among developed countries. In particular, net exports and current account balances are much more persistent in the data than in standard models. We account for this feature of the data with a simple onegood two-country model in which tech...

The aim of this paper is to make a first step towards studying the role of social expenditure and its interaction with corporate taxation in determining the destination of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Using panel data for 18 OECD countries and measuring the extent of social welfare policies by the (public social expenditure)/GDP ratio, we find strong support for the conjecture that re...

Europe’s ’New’ Stock Markets* The creation of Europe’s ‘new’ stock markets represents a major experiment in market design with important implications for the ability to support innovative, fast-growing companies. We evaluate the success of these markets based on a large number of measures of firm performance and strategy, which extend to several preand post-listing years. Our handcollected data...

We study the response of domestic unemployment rates to shocks in total factor productivity for economies with high capital mobility and low labour mobility. We show that high capital mobility amplifies the impact on the domestic unemployment rate of domestic fluctuations in total factor productivity, shortens the lag of the response to shocks and raises the variability of unemployment. But ave...

What has been the effect of the shift in emerging market capital flows toward private sector borrowers? Are emerging market capital flows more efficient? If not, can controls on capital flows improve welfare? This paper shows that the answers depend on the form of default risk. When private loans are enforceable, but there is the risk that the government will default on behalf of all residents,...