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Contagion in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Glover, Brent - 2014

We use a network model of credit risk to measure market expectations of the potential spillovers from a sovereign default. Specifically, we develop an empirical model, based on the recent theoretical literature on contagion in financial networks, and estimate it with data on sovereign credit...

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Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2009

Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing...

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The Composition Matters : Capital Inflows and Liquidity Crunch during a Global Economic Crisis

Tong, Hui - 2009

International capital flows, while potentially beneficial, are said to increase a country's vulnerability to crisis - especially if they are skewed to non-FDI types. This paper studies whether the volume and composition of capital flows affect the degree of credit crunch faced by a country's...

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Sudden Stops, Financial Crises, and Original Sin in Emerging Countries : Déjà vu?

Bordo, Michael D. - 2006

The current pattern of sudden stops and financial crises in emerging markets has great resonance to events in the first era of globalization, from 1870-1913. In this paper I present descriptive statistics on capital flows, current account reversals and financial crises during the period...

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Emerging Market Crises : An Asset Markets Perspective

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1998

Although internal policy mismanagements can be cited in most recent emerging market crises, they seldom account fully for the severity of these crises. The reluctance of international investors to provide the resources that would limit the extent of the reversal almost invariably plays a key...

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Credit, Prices, and Crashes : Business Cycles with a Sudden Stop

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2001

The 1990s emerging-markets crises were characterized by sudden reversals in inflows of foreign capital followed by unusually large declines in current account deficits, private expenditures, production, and prices of nontradable goods relative to tradables. This paper shows that these Sudden...

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Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks

Ivashina, Victoria - 2012

in which such banks cut dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because … these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the … dollar funding, there were significant violations of euro-dollar CIP. Moreover, dollar lending by Eurozone banks fell …

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Optimal Currency Area : A 20th Century Idea For the 21st Century?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2016

We take stock of the history of the European Monetary Union and pegged exchange-rate regimes in recent decades. The post-Bretton Woods greater financial integration and under-regulated financial intermediation have increased the cost of sustaining a currency area and other forms of fixed...

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Evaluation of Exchange-Rate, Capital Market, and Dollarization Regimes in the Presence of Sudden Stops

Razin, Assaf - 2005

The literature has not being able to identify clear-cut real effects of exchange-rate regimes on output growth. Similarly, no definitive view emerges from the literature in regard to the effects of open capital markets on macroeconomic performance. The paper attributes the failure of the...

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The Global Dollar Cycle

Obstfeld, Maurice; Zhou, Haonan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The U.S. dollar's nominal effective exchange rate closely tracks global financial conditions, which themselves show a cyclical pattern. Over that cycle, world asset prices, leverage, and capital flows move in concert with global growth, especially influencing the fortunes of emerging and...

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