Global financial markets at the turn of the century / edited by Ilhan Meric and Gulser Meric.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global financial markets at the turn of the century / Ilhan Meric and Gulser Meric -- European Monetary Union : the case for fiscal coordination / André Fourçans and Radu Vranceanu -- Euro changeover costs for international banks / Scheherazade S. Rehman -- A comparison of the financial characteristics of French, German and UK manufacturing firms / Ilhan Meric [and others] -- Common information in a common market? Variance changes in European capital markets / Alan Alford, Gulser Meric and Ilhan Meric -- Volatility and correlation in price changes of major Asian stock markets / Andreas Christofi, Andreas Pericli and Kasume Nishiyama -- Debt financing by industrial firms in the Pacific Basin : an empirical study / Lakshman Alles, Rosita P. Chang and Ramakrishnan S. Koundinya -- The causes and implications of the 1997 collapse of the financial markets in East Asia / M. Raquibuz Zaman -- The relative financial performances of US and Pacific-Rim industries / Parviz Asheghian and M.T. Vaziri -- Return and variance parities of ASEAN-5 country funds and international equity index investments / Chee K. Ng -- When the US sneezes, does the world catch a cold? / Alan Alford and Vanitha Ragunathan -- Asset-liability management strategy, performance and efficiency of multinational banks in the United States / Iftekhar Hasan, Tanweer Hasan and Roswell Mathis III -- Selecting a portfolio with skewness : recent evidence from Latin American equity markets / Arun J. Prakash [and others] -- Financial liberalization and the Mexican stock market beyond the 1994 crisis / Alejandra Cabello -- Co-movements of US and Latin American stock markets during the 1997-1998 emerging markets financial crisis / Gulser Meric [and others] -- An analysis of country, industry and company influences on returns of equities from emerging stock markets / S.G.M. Fifield [and others] -- Portfolio performance and returns due to global diversification with emerging markets / Tulin Sener -- The analysts' recommendations and the effects of second-hand information on stock prices : emerging market evidence / Halil Kiymaz -- Banking, economic development and integration / Edgar Ortiz and Jean-Pierre Gueyie -- Bank risk management practices in emerging markets / Kurt R. Jesswein -- Impact of currency depreciation on the performance of international funds : a comparative study of the Asian and Mexican currency crises / Abraham Mulugetta, Yuko Mulugetta and Dilip K. Ghosh -- Measuring extreme movements in foreign exchange markets : application of extreme value theory to stress testing / François M. Longin.

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Annotation. The world's financial markets experienced a strong globalization trend in the twentieth century. with the removal of barriers to cross-border flow of capital, financial markets have become truly global during the last two decades of the century. The research papers included in this book study a number of important current issues in the world's financial markets. The recent emerging markets crisis, which started in Southeast Asia and affected all the world's developed and emerging financial markets, is studied in detail. Another important issue, which receives considerable coverage in the book, is the European financial integration. The financial markets in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America are studied extensively and the linkages between them are analyzed. The objective of the book is to provide the reader with a comprehensive and balanced overview of the world's financial markets at the end of the twentieth century.

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