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Getting beyond carry trade : what makes a safe haven currency?

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio - 2011

There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...

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Leaning against the global financial cycle

Ferrero, Andrea; Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio; … - 2022

We study the role and the interaction of the quality of institutions and of counter-cyclical policies in leaning against the Global Financial Cycle (GFC) in Emerging Economies (EMEs). We show that heteroegeneity in institutional strength is a key determinant of the different effects of the GFC...

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Firm-specific shocks and contagion : are banks special?

Engljähringer, Hannah Katharina; Stracca, Livio - 2020

This paper builds a database of idiosyncratic shocks (events) in global banks and car manufacturers (as representative of non-financial firms), and focuses on how these influence a number of macroeconomic and firm-specific variables in the short- and medium-term. We find that these shocks spawn...

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Does it pay to have the euro? : Italy's politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2009

's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in …'s financial markets throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The introduction of the euro appears to have indeed played a major role … interesting for other countries with weak institutions considering adopting a currency based on stronger institutions. -- Euro …

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What does a financial shock do? : first international evidence

Fornari, Fabio; Stracca, Livio - 2013

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Explaining EU citizens’ trust in the ECB in normal and crisis times

Ehrmann, Michael; Soudan, Michel; Stracca, Livio - 2012

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Foreign investors and risk shocks : seeking a safe haven or running for the exit?

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio - 2013

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