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Monetary policy spillovers and emerging market credit: The impact of Federal Reserve communications on sovereign CDS spreads

Fender, Ingo; Hayo, Bernd; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2011

In this paper, we study the effects of US target rate changes and related communications by members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on spreads for emerging market sovereign credit default swaps (CDS). Using GARCH models, we find that during the pre-financial crisis sub-sample (April...

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The East European financial crisis

Åslund, Anders - 2009

eminently. The euro has proven credible both in the countries that officially adopted it and in the countries that adopted it … facilitate the accession of willing EU members to the euro by relaxing the ERM II conditions. …

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Fiscal and monetary policy determinants of the Eurozone crisis and its resolution

Dabrowski, Marek - 2012

Unlike the crisis years of 2007-2009 (when the insolvency of large banks was a major problem), the current round of the global financial crisis has fiscal origins. Almost all developed countries suffer from an excessive public debt burden that has been built up over the last two decades or more....

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Discovering the best: Informational efficiency and liquidity of alternative trading mechanisms in experimental asset markets

Oehler, Andreas; Heilmann, Klaus; Läger, Volker - 2001

This paper reports the results of 18 experimental asset markets with 262 subjects that explore the effects of liquidity and aggregation of information. The main focus lies on the comparison of different trading mechanisms of stock exchanges. Compared to most of financial markets experiments,...

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Has the euro affected the choice of invoicing currency?

Ligthart, Jenny E.; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - 2010

We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our … home currency invoicing after the introduction of the euro. In addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the … role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The econometric analysis shows a significant effect of euro introduction above …

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Transpacific imbalances and macroeconomic codependency

Thorbecke, Willem - 2011

Current account deficits in the United States (US) and current account surpluses in East Asia are an enduring part of the global economic landscape. They are supported by low saving in the US and by reserve accumulation in Asia. This paper argues that this strategy is causing macroeconomic...

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The impact of international swap lines on stock returns of banks in emerging markets

Andrieș, Alin Marius; Fischer, Andreas M.; Yeșin, Pınar - 2015

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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Prognos-Studie kann negative Folgen einer Rückkehr zur D-Mark nicht belegen

van Suntum, Ulrich - In: ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 10, pp. 39-49

Kürzlich wurde eine Prognos-Studie publiziert, welche die Vorteile eines Verbleibs Deutschlands im Euroraum zu berechnen versucht. Die Autoren gelangen zu dem Ergebnis, diese seien weitaus größer als die Nachteile, etwa die deutsche Haftung für die Schulden anderer Euroländer. Eine zentrale...

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Monetary policy, housing booms and financial (im)balances

Eickmeier, Sandra; Hofmann, Boris - 2010

This paper uses a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) estimated on U.S. data in order to analyze monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads and asset markets in an integrated setup and to explore the role of monetary policy in the three...

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Makroökonomische Rahmenbedingungen und die Einkommensverteilung: Welchen Einfluss hat die Finanzkrise?

Berthold, Norbert; Brunner, Alexander; Zenzen, Jupp - 2010

Finanzkrise auf die Ungleichheit. Unter der Annahme, dass sich diese als (negativer) exogener Wachstumsschock manifestiert, ist zu … erwarten, dass die Finanzkrise eine dämpfende Wirkung auf die Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland haben wird. …

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