A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...

A large part of the current debate on US stock price behaviorconcentrates on the question of whether stock prices are driven byfundamentals or by non-fundamental factors(...)

[...]In this article, we pursue a transaction-oriented line ofresearch to help track short-term exchange rate movements. Byexamining a publicly available data set well known to currencymarket analysts—net positions held by speculators in thefutures market—we are able to document a strong...

[...]We discuss the potential benefits and costs associated withsome of the corporate governance variables for an average firm.However, we stress that all of these variables are ultimately partof a simultaneous system that determines the corporation’svalue and the allocation of such value...

[...]In this study, we use recent historical evidence toexplore one dimension of the broad relationship betweenmarket returns and mutual fund flows: the effect of shorttermmarket returns on mutual fund flows. Research onthis issue has already confirmed high correlations betweenmarket returns and...

I am delighted to be here today to address this importantconference on economic, supervisory, and regulatory issuesfacing foreign banks operating in the United States. I alsovery much appreciate the efforts of my colleague GeneLudwig and his staff at the Office of the Comptroller of theCurrency...

[...]This article demonstrates that the Bank Holiday that beganon March 6, 1933, marked the end of an old regime, and theFireside Chat a week later inaugurated a new one. TheEmergency Banking Act of 1933, passed by Congress onMarch 9—combined with the Federal Reserve’s commitmentto supply...

[...]In our view, this apparently surprising immunity of the U.S.economy to the Asia crisis reflects the fact that the original wayof thinking about the crisis was flawed. First, it focused only ondemand-side channels and ignored the supply side. Second, thedepreciation of the Asian currencies...

A second-generation model of currency crises is combined with a standard model ofbanks as providers of insurance against liquidity risk. In a pegged exchange rateregime, after funds have been committed to the banks, news arrives about the qualityof the banks’ assets and about the exchange rate...

This paper shows how financial contracts might be redesigned to allow for banks to manage the idiosyncratic component for their own accounts.