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Financial crisis, US unconventional monetary policy and international spillovers

Chen, Qianying; Filardo, Andrew; He, Dong; Zhu, Feng - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2015

We study the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on both the emerging and advanced economies, estimating a global vector error correction model (GVECM). We focus on the effects of reductions in the US term and corporate spreads. The estimated effects of QE are sizeable and vary across...

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Global dollar credit: links to US monetary policy and leverage

McCauley, Robert N; McGuire, Patrick; Sushko, Vladyslav - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2015

Banks and bond investors have extended $9 trillion of US dollar credit to non-bank borrowers outside the United States. This has relevance for the discussion of global liquidity and global monetary policy transmission. This paper contributes to this policy discussion by analysing the links...

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Chronicle of currency collapses: re-examining the effects on output

Bussière, Matthieu; Saxena, Sweta c; Tovar, Camilo - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2010

The impact of currency collapses (ie large nominal depreciations or devaluations) on real output remains unsettled in the empirical macroeconomic literature. This paper provides new empirical evidence on this relationship using a dataset for 108 emerging and developing economies for the period...

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The Asian crisis: what did local stock markets expect?

Gyntelberg, Jacob; Herrero, Alicia Garcia; Tesei, Andrea - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2008

In this paper we investigate whether cross-sectional information from local equity markets contained information on devaluation expectations during the Asian crisis. We concentrate on the information content of equity prices as these markets were in general the largest and most liquid at the...

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The cost of barriers to entry: evidence from the market for corporate euro bond underwriting

Santos, João A. C.; Tsatsaronis, Kostas - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2003

The advent of the euro has eroded many of the barriers that segmented the European corporate bond market along currency … combining their purchasing of commercial and investment banking services. This paper shows that the arrival of the euro led to a … houses, particularly those from the United States, rather than an intensification of the business links between euro area …

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The euro as a reserve currency: a challenge to the pre-eminence of the US dollar?

Galati, Gabriele; Wooldridge, Philip D. - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2006

introduction of the euro greatly improved the functioning of euro financial markets. This paper investigates whether euro financial … markets have developed sufficiently to facilitate the emergence of the euro as a reserve currency on par with the US dollar …. We find that the liquidity and breadth of euro financial markets are fast approaching those of dollar markets, and as a …

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Global safe assets

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Jeanne, Olivier - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2012

Will the world run out of 'safe assets' and what would be the consequences on global financial stability? We argue that in a world with competing private stores of value, the global economic system tends to favor the riskiest ones. Privately produced stores of value cannot provide sufficient...

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Monetary policy in a downturn: Are financial crises special?

Bech, Morten; Gambacorta, Leonardo - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2012

Accommodative monetary policy during the financial crisis was instrumental in preventing a deeper recession. Views differ, however, on how long such measures should be kept in place. At the heart of this debate is the notion that a protracted period of policy accommodation could create...

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The Great Financial Crisis: setting priorities for new statistics

Borio, Claudio - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2013

Every financial crisis brings in its wake demands for more information; the latest one is no exception. Because, in deceptively tranquil times, it is well-nigh impossible to foster the consensus necessary to improve data availability, such a window of opportunity must not be missed. To be sure,...

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Interpreting TARGET2 balances

Cecchetti, Stephen; McCauley, Robert; McGuire, Patrick - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2012

peripheral Europe. These same data suggest that banks headquartered outside the euro area, particularly UK banks, boosted TARGET2 …

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