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Dollar Exchange Rate volatility and Productivity Growth in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Eklou, Kodjovi - 2023
This paper examines the impact of Dollar exchange rate volatility on firm productivity in Emerging Markets economies (EMs). Using firm level data covering 16 EMs over the period 1998 -2019, the paper shows that dollar exchange rate volatility reduces firm productivity growth. Exploring channels,...
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Optimal Policy Under Dollar Pricing
Egorov, Konstantin - 2020
Recent empirical evidence shows that most international prices are sticky in dollars. This paper studies the optimal policy implications of this fact in the context of an open economy model, allowing for an arbitrary structure of asset markets, general preferences and technologies, time-or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834360
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Estimating Fiscal Multipliers Under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes: The Case of Bolivia
Kass-Hanna, Tannous - 2023
Empirical (employing the Blanchard-Perotti framework) and modeling (using a country-specific DSGE model) approaches are used to estimate fiscal multipliers by policy instrument for Bolivia, to evaluate possible adjustments in a fiscal consolidation strategy. Multipliers are also estimated using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058920
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Policy Credibility and Sovereign Credit--The Case of New EU Member States
Kumar, Manmohan S. - 2007
References to policy credibility, particularly with regard to fiscal policy, are ubiquitous in both economic literature and financial markets, even though it is not directly observable. The case of the EU new member states (NMS)-emerging markets joining a supranational entity that is generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677845
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The Costs of Sovereign Default
Borensztein, Eduardo - 2008
This paper evaluates empirically four types of cost that may result from an international sovereign default: reputational costs, international trade exclusion costs, costs to the domestic economy through the financial system, and political costs to the authorities. It finds that the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677667
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Is it (Still) Mostly Fiscal? Determinants of Sovereign Spreads in Emerging Markets
Gupta, Sanjeev - 2008
Using a panel of 30 emerging market economies from 1997 to 2007, this paper investigates the determinants of country risk premiums as measured by sovereign bond spreads. Unlike previous studies, the results indicate that both fiscal and political factors matter for credit risk in emerging...
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Euro Area Sovereign Risk During the Crisis
Zoli, Edda - 2009
While the use of public resources is critical to cushion the impact of the financial crisis on the euro-area economy … perspective, to what extent do movements in euro area sovereign spreads reflect country-specific solvency concerns? In line with … previous studies, the paper suggests that euro area sovereign risk premium differentials tend to comove over time and are …
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Equity Returns in the Banking Sector in the Wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Fund, International Monetary - 2012
This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677547
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Sovereign Debt Repatriation During Crises
Arslanalp, Serkan - 2022
We use a new, comprehensive data set on the sovereign debt investor base to document three novel empirical facts: (i) sovereign debt is repatriated - that is, shifted from external private to domestic investors - prior to sovereign defaults; (ii) not all crises are equal: evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060461
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Systemic banking crises database : an update
Laeven, Luc; Valencia, Fabian - 2012
We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises, including updated information on policy responses and outcomes (i.e. fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt). We also update our dating of...
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