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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796581
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Optimal Reserve Composition in the Presence of Sudden Stops : The Euro and the Dollar as Safe Haven Currencies
Beck, Roland - 2008
traditional portfolio objectives as debt to reserve ratios decrease. We empirically estimate optimal dollar and euro shares for 24 … reserve ratios, introducing transactions demand has a elatively modest effect. We also find that euro and dollar bonds act as … sudden stops in Asia and Latin America, while the euro is a better hedge for sudden stops in Emerging Europe. We reproduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771394
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548057
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Choice of Currency in Bond Issuance and the International Role of Currencies
Siegfried, Nikolaus - 2009
This paper investigates bond issuance of non-financial corporations in advanced economies during the period 1999-2003, attempting to understand motives for issuing in foreign currency, and determinants for the choice of currency. We consider the following influences on the currency choice when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766990
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731982
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Financial crises and the dynamic linkages between stock and bond returns
Eraslan, Sercan; Ali, Faek Menla - 2017
This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns, within a wide range of advanced economies, over the different phases of the recent financial crisis. The adopted empirical framework is a bivariate volatility model, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663407
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The Pricing of Sovereign Risk and Contagion During the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Beirne, John - 2014
spreads during the crisis, not only for euro area countries but globally. By contrast, regional spill overs and contagion have … been less important, including for euro area countries. The paper also finds evidence for herding contagion – sharp …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061742
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128764
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What explains global exchange rate movements during the financial crisis?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009
A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605106
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Market Perception of Sovereign Credit Risk in the Euro Area During the Financial Crisis
Camba-Mendez, Gonzalo - 2014
We study market perception of sovereign credit risk in the euro area during the financial crisis. In our analysis we … euro area countries. In our empirical results the estimated LGDs perceived by financial markets stay comfortably below 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052936