Working Paper

Changes in the second-moment properties of disaggregated capital flows


Abstract: Using formal statistical tests, we detect (i) significant volatility increases for various types of capital flows for a period of changes in business cycle comovement among the G7 countries, and (ii) mixed evidence of changes in covariances and correlations with a set of macroeconomic variables.

Keywords: Capital investments; International finance;

https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2010.020

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Part of Series: Working Papers

Publication Date: 2010

Number: 2010-020