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For a Few Dollars More : Reserves and Growth in Times of Crises
Bussière, Matthieu - 2014
Based on a dataset of 112 emerging economies and developing countries, this paper addresses two key questions regarding the accumulation of international reserves: first, has the accumulation of reserves effectively protected countries during the 2008-09 financial crisis? And second, what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458872
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Latin America and East Asia in the Context of an Insurance Model of Currency Crises
Chinn, Menzie D. - 1999
This paper focuses on the 1995 Latin American and 1997 East Asian crises using an insurance-based model of financial crises. First the model of Dooley (forthcoming) is described. Second, some empirical evidence for an insurance model is presented. The key variables in this approach include the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471706
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The Role of Foreign Currency Debt in Financial Crises : 1880-1913 vs. 1972-1997
Bordo, Michael D. - 2005
What is the role of foreign currency debt in precipitating financial crises? In this paper we compare the 1880 to 1913 period to recent experience. We examine debt crises, currency crises, banking crises and the interrelation between these varieties of crises. We pay special attention to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466774
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Productivity and the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate Puzzle
Alquist, Ron - 2002
This paper documents the evidence for a productivity based model of the dollar/euro real exchange rate over the 1985 … the Johansen (1988) and Stock-Watson (1993) procedures. We find that each percentage point in the US-Euro area … estimation methodology, the variables included in the regression, and the sample period. We conjecture that productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469891
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Surfing the Waves of Globalization : Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
Using the "trilemma indexes" developed by Aizenman et al. (2008) that measure the extent of achievement in each of the three policy goals in the trilemma--monetary independence, exchange rate stability, and financial openness--we examine how policy configurations affect macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462774
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Traders, Market Microstructure and Exchange Rate Dynamics
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 1999
We report findings from a survey of United States foreign exchange traders. Our results indicate that: (i) The share of customer business, versus interbank business, has remained fairly constant; (ii) The channels by which transactions take place have changed, as electronically-brokered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471365
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International Aspects of the Great Depression and the Crisis of 2007 : Similarities, Differences, and Lessons
Grossman, Richard S. - 2010
We focus on two international aspects of the Great Depression--financial crises and international trade-- and try to discern lessons for the current economic crisis. Both downturns featured global banking crises which were generated by boom-slump macroeconomic cycles. During both crises, world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462356
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Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth : A Long Run View
Bordo, Michael D. - 2009
Foreign currency debt is widely believed to increase risks of financial crisis, especially after being implicated as a cause of the East Asian crisis in the late 1990s. In this paper, we study the effects of foreign currency debt on currency and debt crises and its indirect short and long run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463115
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International Capital Inflows, Domestic Financial Intermediation and Financial Crises under Imperfect Information
Chinn, Menzie D. - 2000
A model of financial crises in emerging markets based on problems of agency in financial intermediation is developed. This model generates dynamic relationships between foreign capital inflows, domestic investment and domestic bank debt in an endogenous growth model. As a consequence of loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470835
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Fiscal and Financial Crises
Bordo, Michael D. - 2016
Interconnections between banking crises and fiscal crises have a long history. We document the long-run evolution from classic banking panics towards modern banking crises where financial guarantees are associated with crisis resolution. Recent crises feature a feedback loop between bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456615