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Precautionary Demand for Foreign Assets in Sudden Stop Economies : An Assessment of the New Merchantilism

Durdu, Ceyhun Bora - 2007

Financial globalization was off to a rocky start in emerging economies hit by Sudden Stops since the mid 1990s. Foreign … saving affects foreign assets via three mechanisms: business cycle volatility, financial globalization, and Sudden Stop risk … Irving Fisher's debt-deflation mechanism. Our results show that financial globalization and Sudden Stop risk are plausible …

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An Anatomy Of Credit Booms : Evidence From Macro Aggregates And Micro Data

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2008

This paper proposes a methodology for measuring credit booms and uses it to identify credit booms in emerging and industrial economies over the past four decades. In addition, we use event study methods to identify the key empirical regularities of credit booms in macroeconomic aggregates and...

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An Anatomy of Credit Booms and their Demise

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2012

What are the stylized facts that characterize the dynamics of credit booms and the associated fluctuations in macro-economic aggregates? This paper answers this question by applying a method proposed in our earlier work for measuring and identifying credit booms to data for 61 emerging and...

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Global House Price Fluctuations : Synchronization and Determinants

Hirata, Hideaki - 2012

We examine the properties of house price fluctuations across eighteen advanced economies over the past forty years. We ask two specific questions: First, how synchronized are housing cycles across these countries? Second, what are the main shocks driving movements in global house prices? To...

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Globalization, the Business Cycle, and Macroeconomic Monitoring

Aruoba, S. Boragan - 2010

We propose and implement a framework for characterizing and monitoring the global business cycle. Our framework utilizes high-frequency data, allows us to account for a potentially large amount of missing observations, and is designed to facilitate the updating of global activity estimates as...

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