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’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in …
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This paper uses sovereign CDS spread changes and their volatilities as a proxy for the informational efficiency of the sovereign markets and persistency of country risks. Specifically, we apply semi-parametric and parametric methods to the sovereign CDSs of 10 eurozone countries to test the...
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Using a comprehensive dataset from German banks, we document the usage of sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) during the European sovereign debt crisis of 2008-2013. Banks used the sovereign CDS market to extend, rather than hedge, their long exposures to sovereign risk during this period....
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We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on the compositional supply effects through cross-border and relationship lending. For empirical identification, we draw on the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset...
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those of bailouts. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Euro depreciates significantly against the Yen and US Dollar … following general risk shocks in the euro area and only to a small extent following bailout shocks. The Pound Sterling is not … affected by any of these shocks. The Euro variability is, from the EMU perspective, mainly driven by shocks stemming from large …
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to macroeconomic factors increased significantly in the post-Lehman period. Banks hold more bonds from euro area …
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the real economy in the euro area. Our FSI was shown to perform better than the Euro STOXX 50 volatility index for the … recent banking crisis and the euro-area sovereign debt crisis and to be able to serve as an early warning indicator for …
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estimation is based on a simple autoregressive model and comes to the conclusion that current account adjustment is significantly …
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We study the macroeconomic consequences of the money market tensions associated with the financial crisis in the euro … persistent fall in investment. The shock can account for one third of the observed, large fall in euro area aggregate investment …
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