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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045650
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098138
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Surprising Similarities : Recent Monetary Regimes of Small Economies
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2013
In contrast to earlier recessions, the monetary regimes of many small economies have not changed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. This is due in part to the fact that many small economies continue to use hard exchange rate fixes, a reasonably durable regime. However, most of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073186
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996468
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A Distant Mirror of Debt, Default, and Relief
Reinhart, Carmen - 2014
We take a first pass at quantifying the magnitudes of debt relief achieved through default and restructuring in two distinct samples: 1979-2010, focusing on credit events in emerging markets, and 1920-1939, documenting the official debt hangover in advanced economies that was created by World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045576
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Measuring Sovereign Contagion in Europe
Caporin, Massimiliano - 2020
This paper analyzes the sovereign risk contagion using credit default swaps (CDS) and bond premiums for the major eurozone countries. By emphasizing several econometric approaches (nonlinear regression, quantile regression and Bayesian quantile regression with heteroskedasticity) we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823085
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Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts : Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared with and Without Bailouts
Bordo, Michael D.; Schwartz, Anna J. - 2022
In this paper we first trace the changing nature of banking, currency and debt crises from the last century to the present. Each type of crisis has transmogrified in the presence of official intervention and the creation of a safety net. A similar pattern is observed for international rescue...
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China : Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Li, Hongbin - 2010
likely confounded by other omitted policy shocks or socioeconomic changes. Moreover, we conduct the DD estimation using both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138734
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Abs Inflows to the United States and the Global Financial Crisis
Bertaut, Carol C. - 2011
securities contributed to the decline in their spreads over Treasury yields. Through a combination of empirical estimation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121035
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Transmission of the U.S. Subprime Crisis to Emerging Markets : Evidence on the Decoupling-Recoupling Hypothesis
Dooley, Michael P. - 2010
We find that emerging markets appeared to be somewhat insulated from developments in U.S. financial markets from early 2007 to summer 2008. From that point on, however, emerging markets responded very strongly to the deteriorating situation in the U.S. financial system and real economy. Policy...
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