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Exchange Rate Policy and Debt Crises in Emerging Economies

Montiel, Peter - 2003

We explore a model intended to capture the interaction between exchange rate policy, fiscal policy, and outright default on foreign-currency denominated debt. We examine how the exchange rate affects the supply of short-term debt facing the government. We show that under a credible hard peg...

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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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Emerging Market Bond Spreads and Sovereign Credit Ratings : Reconciling Market Views with Economic Fundamentals

Sy, Amadou N. R. - 2001

This paper uses a panel data estimation of a simple univariate model of sovereign spreads on ratings to analyze …

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Testing the Informational Efficiency of OTC Optionson Emerging Market Currencies

Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - 2003

This paper analyzes the informational efficiency of OTC currency options on the Czech koruna and the Polish zloty correcting for the volatility risk premium and errors-in-variable problems, using state-of-the-art techniques (Chernov 2001). It finds that these markets are more efficient than...

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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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Bond Restructuring and Moral Hazard : Are Collective Action Clauses Costly?

Becker, Törbjörn I. - 2001

Many official groups have endorsed the wider use by emerging market borrowers of contract clauses which allow for a qualified majority of bondholders to restructure repayment terms in the event of financial distress. Some have argued that such clauses will be associated with moral hazard and...

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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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Characterizing Global Investors' Risk Appetite for Emerging Market Debt During Financial Crises

González-Hermosillo, Brenda - 2003

The effects of unanticipated movements in global risk on nine emerging bond markets are investigated. The components of global risk are volatility, credit, and liquidity risks. Country and contagion risks are also studied individually. A historical decomposition of bond spreads is used to...

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External financing risks : how important is the composition of the international investment position?

Cubeddu, Luis; Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali; Rabanal, Pau - 2021

Building on the vast literature, this paper focuses on the role of the structure of the international investment position (IIP) in affecting countries' external vulnerabilities. Using a sample of 73 advanced and emerging economies and new database on the IIP's currency composition, we find that...

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Emerging Markets Crisis : An Asset Markets Perspective

Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 1999

The entire difference between a mild downturn and a devastating crisis is the occurrence of sharp fire sales of domestic assets and possibly foreign exchange and the ensuing collapse in the balance sheets of both the financial and nonfinancial sector. Why and how do such crises materialize? And...

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