ESG ETFs and the COVID-19 stock market crash of 2020: Did clean funds fare better?

I Pavlova, ME de Boyrie - Finance Research Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
This study adds to the literature on sustainable investment performance by assessing the
risk-adjusted returns of ESG ETFs before and during the COVID-19 market crash. Employing …

Volatility transmission from commodity markets to sovereign CDS spreads in emerging and frontier countries

E Bouri, ME de Boyrie, I Pavlova - International Review of Financial …, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigate the volatility transmission from commodities to sovereign credit defaults swaps
(CDS) spreads of emerging and frontier markets. Using daily data for seventeen emerging …

Estimating the magnitude of capital flight due to abnormal pricing in international trade: The Russia–USA case

ME De Boyrie, SJ Pak, JS Zdanowicz - Accounting Forum, 2005 - Elsevier
Governmental and international lending agencies, as well as private sector firms, who
engage in international trade, have long been concerned with detecting and determining the …

The impact of Switzerland's money laundering law on capital flows through abnormal pricing in international trade

ME De Boyrie, SJ Pak*… - Applied Financial …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this research is to determine the impact of Switzerland's money laundering
law on the movement of money through false invoicing in international trade. This study …

A dynamic spillover analysis of crude oil effects on the sovereign credit risk of exporting countries

I Pavlova, ME De Boyrie, AM Parhizgari - The Quarterly Review of …, 2018 - Elsevier
We study the dynamic spillover of crude oil prices and volatilities on sovereign risk premia of
ten oil-exporting countries. Among the determining variables, we include a set of local and …

Capital movement through trade misinvoicing: the case of Africa

ME de Boyrie, JA Nelson, SJ Pak - Journal of Financial Crime, 2007 - emerald.com
Data from 30 African nations were examined for deviations from average import and export
prices as an indicator of capital flows This paper uses US customs data to document the …

Extreme risk spillovers from commodity indexes to sovereign CDS spreads of commodity dependent countries: A VAR quantile analysis

M Cheuathonghua, ME de Boyrie, I Pavlova… - International Review of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Given the financialization of commodities and the increase in the CDS markets' size and
structure, we examine the co-movement and dependence structure between four commodity …

Measuring the hedging effectiveness of commodities

P Chunhachinda, ME de Boyrie, I Pavlova - Finance Research Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Our study examines the dynamic correlations, portfolio weights and hedging effectiveness
of adding commodities to international equity portfolios. The data covers the 2014/2015 …

Dynamic interdependence of sovereign credit default swaps in BRICS and MIST countries

ME de Boyrie, I Pavlova - Applied Economics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the interactions of emerging markets sovereign credit default swaps (CDS).
Using a generalized vector autoregressive framework and principal component …

Analysing the link between environmental performance and sovereign credit risk

ME de Boyrie, I Pavlova - Applied Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the effects of a country’s environmental performance on sovereign
credit risk. We use sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a large panel of countries …