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international equity transactions that accentuate the role of international risk sharing as a factor for the macroeconomic response … shock affecting only one country. Efficient global risk-sharing imply that expected productivity gains in one country will … for the productivity gains can further increase the risk exposure of foreign shareholders. The model is calibrated to show …
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The globalization of capital and product markets has many implications for economic welfare. Countries can specialize in the production of goods for which they have comparative advantages, and capital is allocated more efficiently. However, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the...
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The G7 countries traditionally display home bias in assets (equities and bonds), but over the last 25 years this bias has progressively decreased, especially for equity portfolios. At the same time, the indebtedness of non-financial corporations has tended to increase and comove across...
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The U.S. could be the source of the global financial risk because it longs risky assets and shorts safe assets in the … international capital market. This paper builds a stylized two-country model to highlight that when the developed country's risk …-bearing capacity improves, it holds more foreign risky assets and issue more risk-free debt. The foreign country's risk …
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While the synchronization of business cycles has been much studied in the literature, housing prices' synchronization has not. In this paper we study the determinants of the housing prices' synchronicity for a variety of advanced and emerging countries. In order to do so, we rely on...
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Using a novel data set on capital control actions in 17 emerging-market economies (EMEs) over the period 2001 - 11, we provide new evidence on domestic and multilateral (or spillover) effects of capital controls. Our results, based on panel vector autoregressions, suggest that capital control...
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gross (but not net) capital inflows in general increase the risk of a currency crisis, but looking at a disaggregated level …, gross portfolio flows increase the risk of a currency crisis for advanced economies, whereas gross FDI inflows decrease the … risk of a crisis for EMEs. Third, contagion has a very strong impact, consistent with the past literature, especially …
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We study the dynamic response of gross capital flows in emerging market economies to different global financial shocks, using a panel vector-autoregressive (PVAR) setting. Our focus lies primarily on the potentially stabilizing role played by domestic investors in offsetting the response of...
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