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On the Incidence of a Financial Transactions Tax in a Model with Fire Sales

Bierbrauer, Felix - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade with each other. Assets are marked to the market and financial institutions with negative equity are forced out of business. There are two main results: First, if all banks have...

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Do Bubbles Lead to Overinvestment?: A Revealed Preference Approach

Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - CESifo - 2011

Many economists believe that the stock market plays an important role in efficiently allocating capital to its most productive uses. This standard story of the stock market was called into question by events in the late 1990s, when some observers believed that stock market overvaluation – or a...

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Global and Regional Spillovers in Emerging Stock Markets: A Multivariate GARCH-in-mean Analysis

Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets. Tri-variate VAR GARCH(1,1)-in-mean models are estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs) in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of...

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Volatility Spillovers and Contagion from Mature to Emerging Stock Markets

Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines volatility spillovers from mature to emerging stock markets and tests for changes in the transmission mechanism—contagion—during turbulences in mature markets. Tri-variate GARCH-BEKK models of returns in global (mature), regional, and local markets are estimated for 41...

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Globalization and the (Mis)Governance of Nations

Blouin, Arthur; Ghosal, Sayantan; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2012

We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines’ governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country’s vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … increased threat of capital flight can discipline governments and improve governance and welfare by placing countries in a …

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Monetary Policy, Vagabonding Liquidity and Bursting Bubbles in New and Emerging Markets – An Overinvestment View

Hoffmann, Andreas; Schnabl, Gunther - CESifo - 2007

Credit booms have globally fuelled hikes in stock, raw material and real estate markets which have culminated in the recent US subprime market crisis. We explain the global asset market booms since the mid 1980s based on the overinvestment theories of Hayek, Wicksell and Schumpeter. We argue...

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Regional Implications of Financial Market Development: Credit Rationing, Trade, and Location

Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2013

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

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China's Exchange Rate and Financial Repression: The Conflicted Emergence of the Renminbi as an International Currency

McKinnon, Ronald Ian; Schnabl, Gunther - CESifo - 2014

China has been provoked into speeding renmnibi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial markets in RMB, the Chinese authorities are essentially trapped into maintaining exchange controls—reinforced by financial repression in domestic interest rates—to avoid an...

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Pooling, Tranching and Credit Expansion

Bougheas, Spiros - CESifo - 2012

Traditionally banks have used securitization for expanding credit and thus their profitability. It has been well documented that, at least before the 2008 crisis, many banks were keeping a high proportion of the securities that they created on their own balance-sheets. Those securities retained...

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Low Skill but High Volatility?

Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - CESifo - 2009

Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...

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