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crisis, in terms of the magnitude of unemployment and of the still high levels of indebtedness, makes for a complex outlook …
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This paper provides a set of stylised facts on the mechanisms through which banking and sovereign distress feed into each other, using a large sample of emerging economies over three decades. We first define “twin crises” as events where banking crises and sovereign defaults combine, and...
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The paper tests whether there were events of contagion, and portfolio shift, in the sovereign bond markets of eleven emerging countries' between January 1995 and November 2001. From existing definitions, we narrow down the concept of contagion by focusing on pricing errors, after general market...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of the volatility of different types of capital inflows to emerging countries …. After calculating a variable that proxies capital flows volatility, we study its possible causality relations with a set of …, various factors exhibit a non-robust effect on the volatility of the three different categories of capital flows, which poses …
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The fallout from the 2008 financial crisis has been particularly acute in the euro area Member States of the south-western rim and in the new EU Member States, due to their previously accumulated macroeconomic and financial imbalances. The perception that the euro environment provided a solid...
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This paper reviews the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on two distinct emerging market regions: Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) and Latin America. Similar to other emerging economies, both regions were initially surprisingly resilient as the crisis gathered...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the effectiveness of movements in nominal exchange rates in smooting cyclical imbalances between countries, as explained by the literature on optimal currency areas.
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In this study it is attempted to estimate the amount of speculation in foreign exchange market.
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