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Chinese monetary policy and the dollar peg

Reade, J. James; Volz, Ulrich - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent Chinese monetary policy is constrained by the dollar peg. To this end, we use a cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates are driven by the Fed's policy. In a second step, we estimate a monetary model for China, in which we include...

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The IMF to the rescue : did the euro area benefit from the fund's experience in crisis fighting?

Dullien, Sebastian; Fritz, Barbara; Mühlich, Laurissa - 2016

’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in …

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Sovereign default swap market efficiency and country risk in the eurozone

Gündüz, Yalın; Kaya, Orcun - 2013

This paper uses sovereign CDS spread changes and their volatilities as a proxy for the informational efficiency of the sovereign markets and persistency of country risks. Specifically, we apply semi-parametric and parametric methods to the sovereign CDSs of 10 eurozone countries to test the...

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Equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the great recession and the European sovereign debt crisis

Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Liu, Estelle X.; Schmittmann, … - 2013

This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....

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Bank use of sovereign CDS in the eurozone crisis : hedging and risk incentives

Acharya, Viral V.; Gündüz, Yalın; Johnson, Tim - 2018

Using a comprehensive dataset from German banks, we document the usage of sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) during the European sovereign debt crisis of 2008-2013. Banks used the sovereign CDS market to extend, rather than hedge, their long exposures to sovereign risk during this period....

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Surprises in scheduled releases : why do they move the bond market?

Hess, Dieter - 2000

It is well known that information arrival has an impact on prices volatility, and trading volume in financial markets (see e.g., Goodhart and O'Hara 1997). Scheduled macroeconomic announcements, such as monthly employment figures, consumer prices, or building permits, stand out from the steady...

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Spillovers of U.S. unconventional monetary policy to emerging markets : the role of capital flows

Anaya Longaric, Pablo Andrés; Hachula, Michael; … - 2015 - This version: November 2, 2015

A growing literature stresses the importance of the “global financial cycle”, a common global movement in asset prices and credit conditions, for emerging market economies (EMEs). It is argued that one of the key drivers of this global cycle is monetary policy in the U.S., which is...

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Is the 'Great Recession' really so different from the past?

Chiu, Adrian; Wieladek, Tomasz - 2013

Based on the decline in real GDP growth, many economists now believe that the 'Great Recession', the output contraction the world experienced in 2008–09, is the deepest global economic contraction since the Great Depression. But as real-time real GDP data are typically revised, we investigate...

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Cross-border liquidity, relationships and monetary policy : evidence from the Euro area interbank crisis

Abbassi, Puriya; Bräuning, Falk; Fecht, Falko; … - 2014 - This version: November 2014

We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on the compositional supply effects through cross-border and relationship lending. For empirical identification, we draw on the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset...

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Spillover effects of credit default risk in the euro area and the effects on the euro : a GVAR approach

Bettendorf, Timo - 2016

those of bailouts. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Euro depreciates significantly against the Yen and US Dollar … following general risk shocks in the euro area and only to a small extent following bailout shocks. The Pound Sterling is not … affected by any of these shocks. The Euro variability is, from the EMU perspective, mainly driven by shocks stemming from large …

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