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Getting beyond carry trade : what makes a safe haven currency?
Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio - 2011
There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901495
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The power of opinion : more evidence of a GIPS-markup in sovereign ratings during the euro crisis
Nauhaus, Steffen - 2015
This paper examines whether the Big Three credit rating agencies actually played as active a role in the Euro Crisis as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317827
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The Argentinean currency crisis : a Markov-switching model estimation
Alvarez Plata, Patricia; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2003
Despite the fact that Argentina has been suffering from a recession for years, the timing and severity of the recent currency crisis surprised most observers. This paper analyzes the role of fundamentals and self-fulfilling speculation in the Argentinean crisis. Arguing within a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438487
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Optimal reserve composition in the presence of sudden stops : the euro and the dollar as safe haven currencies
Beck, Roland (contributor); Rahbari, Ebrahim (contributor) - 2008
traditional portfolio objectives as debt to reserve ratios decrease. We empirically estimate optimal dollar and euro shares for 24 … reserve ratios, introducing transactions demand has a relatively modest effect. We also find that euro and dollar bonds act as … in Asia and Latin America, while the euro is a better hedge for sudden stops in Emerging Europe. We reproduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782664
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Testing CAPM with a large number of assets
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2012
This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965), when the number of securities, N, is large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. In the case of cross-sectionally correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535779
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The state dependent impact of bank exposure on sovereign risk
Podstawski, Maximilian; Velinov, Anton - 2016 - This version: February 11, 2016
The theoretical literature remains inconclusive on whether changes in bank exposure towards the domestic sovereign have an adverse effect on the sovereign risk position via a diabolic loop in the sovereign-bank nexus or reduce perceived default risk by acting as a disciplinary device for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436025
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Choice of currency in bond issuance and the international role of currencies
Siegfried, Nikolaus (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper investigates bond issuance of non-financial corporations in advanced economies during the period 1999-2003, attempting to understand motives for issuing in foreign currency, and determinants for the choice of currency. We consider the following influences on the currency choice when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554956
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Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2008
economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825947
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Was unofficial dollarisation/euroisation an amplifier of the "Great Recession" of 2007 - 09 in emerging economies
Chiţu, Livia - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765967
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Credit rating agency announcements and the eurozone sovereign debt crisis
Baum, Christopher F.; Karpava, Margarita; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2013
This paper studies the impact of credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on the value of the Euro and the yields of …-2012. The employed GARCH models show that CRA downgrade announcements negatively affected the value of the Euro currency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206145