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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...
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Fetters of Gold and Paper
Eichengreen, Barry - 2010
We describe in this essay why the gold standard and the euro are extreme forms of fixed exchange rates, and how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139971
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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 …
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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...
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Living with the Trilemma Constraint : Relative Trilemma Policy Divergence, Crises, and Output Losses for Developing Countries
Aizenman, Joshua - 2013
This paper investigates the potential impacts of the degree of divergence in open macroeconomic policies in the context of the trilemma hypothesis. Using an index that measures the relative policy divergence among the three trilemma policy choices, namely monetary independence, exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075864
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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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Fighting Crises
Gorton, Gary B. - 2016
In fighting a financial crisis, opacity (keeping the names of banks borrowing at emergency lending facilities secret) and stigma (the cost of having a bank's name revealed) are desirable to restore confidence. Lending facilities raise the perceived average quality of all banks' assets. Opacity...
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Lessons from the Asian Crisis
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021
This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard...
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From Sudden Stops to Fisherian Deflation : Quantitative Theory and Policy Implications
Korinek, Anton - 2013
The 1990s Sudden Stops in emerging markets were a harbinger for the 2008 global financial crisis. During Sudden Stops, countries lost access to credit, causing abrupt current account reversals, and suffered Great Recessions. This paper reviews a class of models that yields quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077215
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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