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enhance both domestic currency bond markets and increase countries’ ability to issue foreign currency bonds, while they raise …The development of government bond markets and, in particular, their currency composition have recently received much … composition of government bond markets for a panel of developed and developing countries. We find that countries with larger …
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Capital formation is a key driver of the growth of potential output. With continuing widespread capital controls and persistently small inward FDI the volume of capital formation in India is constrained by domestic saving. The national saving rate in India (the sum of the saving rates of...
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Assuming the role of debt management is to provide hedging against fiscal shocks we consider three questions: i) what indicators can be used to assess the performance of debt management? ii) how well have historical debt management policies performed? and iii) how is that performance affected by...
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including global equities, global bonds, commodities, US Treasuries, credit, and options. This predictability rejects a …
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The paper considers the case for an internationally coordinated further fiscal stimulus during the second half of 2009. Although this makes some of the analysis period-specific, most of the issues and principles considered are timeless. For a fiscal stimulus to be both effective there must be...
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issues non-contingent bonds. A number of authors conclude from this approach that governments should issue long term debt and … recommendations. This is because bonds at different maturities have highly correlated returns, causing the determination of the … the specification of shocks or small variations in the maturity of bonds issued. We further extend the literature by …
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We show how to model portfolio models in the presence of long bonds. Specifically we study optimal fiscal policy under … incomplete markets where the government issues bonds of maturity N > 1. Assuming the existence of long bonds introduces an …, fiscal policy is secondary to debt management. Modelling optimal policy with long term bonds is computationally demanding …
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-averse than log, then an increase in the long-horizon clientele raises the price and optimal supply of long-term bonds … clienteles is limited and long-term bonds earn negative expected excess returns. …
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This Paper develops a broad concept of systemic risk, the basic economic concept for the understanding of financial crises. It is claimed that any such concept must integrate systemic events in banking and financial markets as well as in the related payment and settlement systems. At the heart...
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The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...
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