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One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade
Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international … exchange rate volatility, even after controlling for a host of features, including the endogenous nature of the exchange rate …
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Endogenous Market Thinness and Stock Price Volatility
Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
resulting volatility can induce risk-averse transactors who face transaction costs to desert these markets altogether. Thus … thinness and the consequent price volatility may become joint self-perpetuating features of an equity market, whatever the … volatility of asset fundamentals. If, however, appropriate incentive schemes are adopted to encourage entry of additional …
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Crash Risk in Currency Markets
Farhi, Emmanuel; Fraiberger, Samuel P.; Gabaix, Xavier; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
How much of carry trade excess returns can be explained by the presence of disaster risk? To answer this question, we propose a simple structural model that includes both Gaussian and disaster risk premia and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. The model points to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016245
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Dollar Illiquidity and Central Bank Swap Arrangements During the Global Financial Crisis
Rose, Andrew K; Spiegel, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
While the global financial crisis was centered in the United States, it led to a surprising appreciation in the dollar, suggesting global dollar illiquidity. In response, the Federal Reserve partnered with other central banks to inject dollars into the international financial system. Empirical...
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Leverage as a Predictor for Real Activity and Volatility
Kollmann, Robert; Zeugner, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
positively linked to the conditional volatility of future real activity and of equity returns. The joint information in sectoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008915810
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The Financial Crisis and the Geography of Wealth Transfers
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Rey, Hélène; Truempler, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper studies the geography of wealth transfers during the 2008 global financial crisis. We construct valuation changes on bilateral external positions in equity, direct investment and portfolio debt at the height of the crisis to map who benefited and who lost on their external exposure....
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The Changing International Transmission of Financial Shocks: Evidence from a Classical Time-Varying FAVAR
Eickmeier, Sandra; Lemke, Wolfgang; Marcellino, Massimiliano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the changing international transmission of US financial shocks over the period 1971-2009. Financial shocks are defined as unexpected changes of a financial conditions index (FCI), recently developed by Hatzius et al. (2010), for the US. We use a time-varying factor-augmented VAR to...
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Global Banking and International Business Cycles
Enders, Zeno; Kollmann, Robert; Müller, Gernot - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper incorporates a global bank into a two-country business cycle model. The bank collects deposits from households and makes loans to entrepreneurs, in both countries. It has to finance a fraction of loans using equity. We investigate how such a bank capital requirement affects the...
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International Currency Exposures, Valuation Effects and the Global Financial Crisis
Bénétrix, Agustín; Lane, Philip R.; Shambaugh, Jay C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We examine the evolution of international currency exposures, with a particular focus on the 2002-12 period. During the run up to the global financial crisis, there was a widespread shift towards positive net foreign currency positions, such that relatively few countries exhibited the archetypal...
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Understanding Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses
Claessens, Stijn; Kose, Ayhan; Laeven, Luc; Valencia, Fabian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The global financial crisis of 2007-09 has led to an intensive research program analyzing a wide range of issues related to financial crises. This paper presents a summary of a forthcoming book, Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses, that includes 19 contributions...
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