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We provide a conceptual and empirical framework for evaluating the effects of short-term capital flows. A simple model of the joint determination of the maturity and cost of external borrowing highlights the role played by self-fulfilling crises. The model also specifies the circumstances under...
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We provide a conceptual and empirical framework for evaluating the effects of short-term capital flows. A simple model of the joint determination of the maturity and cost of external borrowing highlights the role played by self-fulfilling crises. The model also specifies the circumstances under...
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The global financial crisis has demonstrated that a financially open economy has many areas of vulnerability. Even when a country keeps its own house in order, it remains at the mercy of developments in external financial markets. So, one lesson to bear in mind is that policymakers need to guard...
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We study the period of the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the impact of foreign institutional investor (FII) flows on asset prices in an emerging market. Using a dataset of stock-level foreign fund flows of Indian equities, we show that stocks experiencing abnormally high innovations in foreign...
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We examine how the banking sector may ignite the formation of asset price bubbles when there is access to abundant … liquidity. Inside banks, given lack of observability of effort, loan officers (or risk takers) are compensated based on the … macroeconomic risk, investors reduce direct investment and hold more bank deposits. This ‘flight to quality’ leaves banks flush with …
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We examine the dynamics of a country’s growth, consumption, and sovereign debt, assuming that the government is myopic and wants to maximize short-term, self-interested spending. Surprisingly, government myopia can increase a country’s access to external borrowing. In turn, access to...
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case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis: excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to … mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on individual institution risk rather than systemic risk; opacity of positions …
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presents a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis: excessive risk-taking in the financial sector … due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on individual institution risk rather than systemic risk; opacity …
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