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In this paper, we assess the success of the ongoing financial system reforms in China by investigating the extent to … Chinese corporate sector, and analyze whether incoming foreign investment in China plays an important role in alleviating … domestic firms' credit constraints. Using firm-level data on 1300 domestic companies over the period 2000-2002, we confirm that …
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This paper aims to investigate the intensity and the effectiveness of the capital controls in China from 2003 to 2010 …
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In this paper we propose a multivariate dynamic probit model. Our model can be considered as a non-linear VAR model for the latent variables associated with correlated binary time-series data. To estimate it, we implement an exact maximum-likelihood approach, hence providing a solution to the...
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The article studies whether financial sector (in)stability had an effect on reforms in the financial sector in a large cross-country panel from 1990 to 2005. We forward the theory that countries are more likely to liberalize their financial sectors in times of financial stability. We argue that...
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domestic supply of credit. Consequently, the high reliance on international capital flows by transition countries does not …
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This paper investigates the relation between liquidity and asset prices. It shows that, when banks balance sheets are marked to market and banks are targeting a financial leverage level - a situation similar to current environment - formation of Leverage Bubble phenomenon and suggests a new...
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Financial crises are often associated with an endogenous credit reversal followed by a fall in asset prices and serious …", Economic Journal, 2000), and where the supply of credit to these investors is endogenous. We show that the interplay between … the risk shifting problem and the endogeneity of credit may give rise multiple equilibria associated with different levels …
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We consider a two-player global game where creditors, who finance some investment project, have to decide whether to roll over their loans or not. We use a non-Bayesian approach where creditors exhibit some aversion to ambiguity. We show that an increase in ambiguity reduces the perceived...
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This paper analyzes the risk taking of branches and subsidiaries of international bank holding institutions from the perspective of host country regulators in two Latin American financial systems: Argentina and Uruguay. Using both theory and empirics, we analyze differences in the risk attitudes...
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We use a non-Bayesian approach to uncertainty which allows for both optimism and pessimism in a simple global game, where each signal can exhibit a bias which is ambiguous. We underline a symmetry between two models of financial crises: a liquidity crisis model, and a currency crisis model. We...
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