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We analyze the conditions of emergence of a twin banking and sovereign debt crisis within a monetary union in which: (i) the central bank is not allowed to provide direct financial support to stressed member states or to play the role of lender of last resort in sovereign bond markets, and (ii)...
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Drawing together the concepts of inefficiency and banking crisis is directly inspired by business cycles theory where a … banking crisis, the post-crisis period should be the time for recovering efficiency. Moreover, traditional banking theory … interesting pattern, opposed to what theory predicts : we find that inefficiency increase after the crises in both banking sectors. …
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This article unearths the determinants of the volatility of aggregate and firm-level production proxied by output and turnover respectively. This article re-visits Comin and Mulani's Note on the diverging trends between aggregate and firm volatility. Similarly to their conclusions, I establish...
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a post-Keynesian authority on monetary theory and financial institutions. He had extensively studied the economic … economic concepts of the efficient market theory which believes that force of invisible hands keep the markets clear. Minsky … observed that periods of financial instability are common and it is the government's massive interventions since the World War …
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significant impact on financial stability in these countries, affecting domestic financing conditions and creating a risk of …
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We present several estimates of measures of risk amongst the most well-known, using both high and low frequency data … more precisely on the slopee of the tail of the various risk measure distributions, in order to define the high watermarks …
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This paper aims to investigate the intensity and the effectiveness of the capital controls in China from 2003 to 2010, with special attention to the period of financial turbulence that erupted in the summer of 2007. We employ a two-regime threshold autoregressive model to study the Renminbi...
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complete opening to world trade and financial globalization. The shakiness of major institutional compromises and the lack of … policy tools to respond to the vagaries of the world economy explain the 1998 turning point from growth to depression. The … transformed by the expected medium term rise of commodities prices at the world level. …
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The 2007/08 financial crisis results in two major problems that issue difficult challenges for the economic theory and …
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In this paper, we examine the relative importance of external shocks in domestic fluctuations of East Asian countries and check if these shocks lead to asymmetric or symmetric reactions between the considered economies. To this end, we estimate, over the period 1990.1-2010.4, a structural VAR...
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