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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …

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How Country and Safety-Net Characteristics Affect Bank Risk-Shifting

Kane, Edward J. - 2002

insurance has had adverse effects in environments that are low in political and economic freedom and high in corruption …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787065

The Spread of Deposit Insurance and the Global Rise in Bank Asset Risk Since the 1970s

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2018

We construct a new measure of the changing generosity of deposit insurance for many countries, empirically model the international influences on the adoption and generosity of deposit insurance, and show that the expansion of deposit insurance generosity increased asset risk in banking systems....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912177

Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …

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Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2010

This paper identifies factors that influence decisions about a country's financial safety net, using a comprehensive dataset covering 180 countries during the 1960-2003 period. Our analysis focuses on how private interest-group pressures, outside influences, and political-institutional factors...

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World Shocks, World Prices, and Business Cycles : An Empirical Investigation

Fernàndez, Andrés - 2016

intratemporal relative price such as the terms of trade and possibly an intertemporal price such as the world interest rate. This … paper presents an empirical framework in which multiple commodity prices and the world interest rate transmit world … disturbances. Estimates on a panel of 138 countries over the period 1960-2015 indicate that world shocks explain on average 33 …

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Political Booms, Financial Crises

Herrera, Helios - 2014

We show that political booms, measured by the rise in governments' popularity, predict financial crises above and beyond other better-known early warning indicators, such as credit booms. This predictive power, however, only holds in emerging economies. We show that governments in emerging...

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Deposit Insurance Database

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2014

This paper provides a comprehensive, global database of deposit insurance arrangements as of 2013. We extend our earlier dataset by including recent adopters of deposit insurance and information on the use of government guarantees on banks' assets and liabilities, including during the recent...

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Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Chris; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2021

This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups -- industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...

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Contingent Reserves Management : An Applied Framework

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Panageas, Stavros - 2021

One of the most serious problems that a central bank in an emerging market economy can face, is the sudden reversal of …

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