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Regional Contagion and the Globalization of Securities Markets / Guillermo A. Calvo, Enrique G. Mendoza.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calvo, Guillermo A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7153.
- NBER working paper series no. w7153
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1999.
- Summary:
- This paper argues that the globalization of securities markets may promote contagion among investors by weakening incentives for gathering costly country-specific information and by strengthening incentives for imitating arbitrary market portfolios. In the presence of short-selling constraints, the utility gain of gathering information at a fixed cost converges to a constant level and may diminish as securities markets grow. Moreover, if a portfolio manager's marginal cost for yielding below-market returns exceeds the marginal gain for above-market returns, there is a range of optimal portfolios in which all investors imitate arbitrary market portfolios and this range widens as the market grows. Numerical simulations suggest that these frictions can have significant quantitative implications and they may induce large capital flows in emerging markets.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 1999.
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