This paper addresses some unintended consequences of global financial regulation and international tax evasion prevention and their impact on small economies. It explores how failure to recognize countries’ differing access to finance and varying costs of funding as well as the high costs of complying with financial regulations may overlook some unintended consequences, especially on smaller island countries
Then, it discusses the global financial architecture and governance of standard setting bodies and the actions taken to improve representation and legitimacy and remediate some of the unin…
This paper analyses three aspects of the share market operated by the Lima Stock Exchange: (i) the short-term relationship between the pricing, direction and volume of order flows; (ii) the components of the spread and the equilibrium point of the limit order book per share, and (iii) the pricing, order direction and trading volume dynamic resulting from shocks in the same variables when lagged. The econometric results for intraday data from 2012 show that the short-run dynamic of the most and least liquid shares in the General Index of the Lima Stock Exchange is explained by the direction of …
En este trabajo se analizan tres aspectos del mercado de acciones de la Bolsa de Valores de Lima (bvl): i) la relación de corto plazo entre la dinámica de precios, la dirección y el volumen del flujo de órdenes; ii) los componentes del spread y el punto de equilibrio del Libro de Órdenes Límite por acción, y iii) la dinámica de los precios, de la dirección de la orden y del volumen negociado por shocks de las mismas variables rezagadas. Los resultados econométricos para datos intradiarios del año 2012 muestran que la dinámica de corto plazo de las acciones más líquidas y menos líquidas del Índ…
Divergence in macro trends and in monetary policy in advanced economies was a dominant driver of rates and currencies in emerging markets in 2014. Diverging macroeconomic developments were reflected in different monetary policy actions in 2014, with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) moving in the opposite direction of the U.S. Federal Reserve. The unwinding of the U.S. monetary stimulus, while the ECB and the BOJ step up their monetary stimulus, has underpinned an appreciation by the U.S. dollar, in which most commodities are priced. Latin American markets, which sta…