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This paper investigates the impact of international swap lines on stock returns using data from banks in emerging markets. The analysis shows that swap lines by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) had a positive impact on bank stocks in Central and Eastern Europe. It then highlights the importance of...
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This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...
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We use a quantitative equilibrium model with houses, collateralized debt and foreign borrowing to study the impact of global imbalances on the U.S. economy in the 2000s. Our results suggest that the dynamics of foreign capital flows account for between one fourth and one third of the increase in...
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policies. Starting from the view that the crises in the euro zone were basically triggered by financial markets and reinforced …
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side or a state behind it, just as the euro, Europe's common currency that the ECB is tasked with guarding, is a … 'denationalised' currency. The euro area is a rare exception to the global 'one state, one currency' rule. But the ECB is not the only … central bank in the euro area. Rather, the ECB is designed as the headquarters (or perhaps 'cockpit') of the Eurosystem, the …
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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the change in actual and potential market risks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during the two-year period 2007-2008 can be analyzed with the help of-analysis. In the empirical analysis, the average of the Lyapunov exponents for the dynamic...
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We assess the role of financial linkages for the transmission of sovereign risk in the Euro Crisis. Building on the … debt in the Euro Crisis. …
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The recent debt crises in Europe and the U.S. states feature similar sharp increases in spreads on government debt but also show important differences. In Europe, the crisis occurred at high government indebtedness levels and had spillovers to the private sector. In the United States, state...
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A technical analysis shows that the doomsayers who support the euro at all costs and those who naively theorize that a … single currency is the root of all evil are both wrong. A euro exit could be a way of getting back to growth, but at the same … the euro; or, in the case of a euro exit, on the quality of the economic policies that are put in place once the country …
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This chapter reviews some of the academic literature that links nominal and real term structures with the macroeconomy. The main conclusion is that none of our models is consistent with basic properties of nominal yields. It is difficult to explain the average shape of the nominal yield curve,...
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