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What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk

Aizenman, Joshua - 2011

We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …

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Asset Class Diversification and Delegation of Responsibilities between Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds

Aizenman, Joshua - 2010

This paper presents a model comparing the degree of asset class diversification abroad by a central bank and a sovereign wealth fund. We show that if the central bank manages its foreign asset holdings in order to meet balance of payments needs, particularly in reducing the probability of sudden...

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The Real Exchange Rate, Mercantilism and the Learning by Doing Externality

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper examines the degree to which the learning by doing externality [LBD] calls for an undervalued exchange rate, a policy suggested by recent empirical studies which concluded that mildly undervalued real exchange rate may enhance growth. We obtain mixed results. For an economy where LBD...

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International Portfolio Diversification with Generalized Expected Utility Preferences

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

. We show that agents who maximize a GEU exhibit first order risk aversion and tend to refrain from di- versification in … risk aversion increases the threshold of yields leading to diversification, shifting the cone of diversification upwards … given domestic yield. Ceteris paribus, greater downside risk aversion reduces the feasible hetero- geneity of normalized …

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Tariff Liberalization Policy and Financial Restrictions

Aizenman, Joshua - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to assess how restrictions on capital mobility affect adjustment to a tariff liberalization policy. This is done by comparing the adlustment process under free and restricted convertibility of foreign assets in a regime where the commercial exchange rate is pegged....

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Capital Controls and Financial Crises

Aizenman, Joshua - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to explain the reluctance of developing countries to open up their capital market to foreigners, and the conditions inducing an emerging market economy to switch its policies. We consider an economy characterized initially by a one-sided openness to the capital...

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House Valuations and Economic Growth : Some International Evidence

Aizenman, Joshua - 2016

This paper evaluates the relation between house prices and economic growth. Using a dataset that covers house prices for 19 countries from the first quarter of 1975 to the third quarter of 2013. We find that house price appreciations are positively associated with economic growth, while the...

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