The Euro and international capital markets

  • This paper provides a broad empirical examination of the major currencies' roles in international capital markets, with a special emphasis on the first year of the euro. A contribution is made as to how to measure these roles, both for international financing as well as for international investment. The times series collected for these measures allow for the identification of changes in the role of the euro during 1999 compared to the aggregate of euro predecessor currencies, net of intra -euro area assets/liabilities, before stage 3 of EMU. A number of key factors determining the currency distribution of international portfolio investments, such as relative market liquidity and relative risk characteristics of assets, are also examined empirically. It turns out that for almost all important market segments for which data are available, the euro immediately became the second most widely used currency for international financing and investment. For the flow of international bond and note issuance it experienced significant growth in 1999 even slightly overtaking the US dollar in the second half of the year. The euro's international investment role appears more static though, since most of the early external asset supply in euro is actually absorbed by euro area residents.

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Author:Carsten Detken, Philipp Hartmann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-9731
Parent Title (German):Institut für Kapitalmarktforschung (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2000,09
Series (Serial Number):CFS working paper series (2000, 09)
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2000
Year of first Publication:2000
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2005/06/13
Tag:EMU; bank lending; bond markets; capital flows; dollar; equity markets; euro; international capital markets; international currencies; international monetary system; money markets; portfolio selection; yen
GND Keyword:Europäische Union; Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion; Internationaler Kreditmarkt; Internationale Währungspolitik; Internationales Währungssystem; Internationale Kapitalbewegung; Kapitalmobilität; Euro <Währung>; US-Dollar; Yen
Issue:Version March 2000
Page Number:64
HeBIS-PPN:199073198
Institutes:Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht