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Debauchery and Original Sin : The Currency Composition of Sovereign Debt
Engel, Charles M. - 2018
This study quantitatively investigates the currency composition of sovereign debt in the presence of two types of limited enforcement frictions arising from a government's monetary and debt policy: strategic currency debasement and default on sovereign debt. Local currency debt obligations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917595
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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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Realignment expectations and the US dollar, 1890 - 1897 : was there a "Peso problem"?
Hallwood, Paul; MacDonald, Ronald; Marsh, Ian - In: Journal of monetary economics 46 (2000) 3, pp. 605-620
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001527303
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An Event Study of Covid-19 Central Bank Quantitative Easing in Advanced and Emerging Economies
Hartley, Jonathan - 2020
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak and related expected economic downturn, many developed and emerging market central banks around the world engaged in new long-term asset purchase programs, or so-called quantitative easing (QE) interventions. This paper conducts an event-study analysis of 24 COVID-19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831837
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Are Hard Pegs Ever Credible in Emerging Markets? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
Mitchener, Kris James - 2010
We test whether fixed exchange rate regimes are ever credible in emerging markets by analyzing the behavior of short-term domestic trade bills across countries during the classical gold standard period, the most widely used hard peg in modern financial history. We exploit the fact that global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150729
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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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The effects of quasi-random monetary experiments
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - In: Journal of monetary economics 112 (2020), pp. 22-40
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494782
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Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies (Nk-Default)
Arellano, Cristina; Bai, Yan; Mihalache, Gabriel - 2021
This paper develops a New Keynesian model with sovereign default risk (NK-Default). We focus on the interaction between monetary policy, conducted according to an interest rate rule that targets inflation, and external defaultable debt issued by the government. Monetary policy and default risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315328