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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...

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Have financial markets become more informative?

Bai, Jennie; Philippon, Thomas; Savov, Alexi - 2012

The finance industry has grown. Financial markets have become more liquid. Information technology has improved. But have prices become more informative? Using stock and bond prices to forecast earnings, we find that the information content of market prices has not increased since 1960. The...

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Estimating the impacts of US LSAP's on emerging market economies' local currency bond markets

Moore, Jeffrey A.; Nam, Sunwoo; Suh, Myeongguk; Tepper, … - 2013

This paper examines whether large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) by the Federal Reserve influenced capital flows out of the United States and into emerging market economies (EMEs) and also analyzes the degree of pass-through from long-term U.S. government bond yields to long-term EME bond yields....

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Was unofficial dollarisation/euroisation an amplifier of the "Great Recession" of 2007 - 09 in emerging economies

Chiţu, Livia - 2012

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The implications of global and domestic credit cycles for emerging market economies : measures of finance-adjusted output gaps

Grintzalis, Ioannis; Lodge, David; Manu, Ana-Simona - 2017

We present estimates of finance-adjusted output gaps which incorporate the information on the domestic and global credit cycles for a sample of emerging market economies (EMEs). Following recent BIS research, we use a state-space representation of an HP filter augmented with a measure of the...

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Dollar funding and the lending behavior of global banks

Ivashina, Victoria; Scharfstein, David; Stein, Jeremy C. - 2012

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