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This paper discusses the estimation of models of the term structure of interest rates. After reviewing the term structure models, specifically the Nelson-Siegel Model and Affine Term- Structure Model, this paper estimates the terms structure of Treasury bond yields for the United States with...
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communication about the exit from unconventional monetary policy can and did help later to reduce the risk of excessive market … volatility. And for the global community, enhanced global cooperation, including a strong global financial safety net, offers … emerging markets effective protection against excessive volatility. …
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view that monetary policy easing induces greater risk-taking by banks but also shows that the relationship between real … interest rates and banking risk is more complex. Ultimately, it depends on how much skin in the game banks have. The central …
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We present evidence of a risk-taking channel of monetary policy for the U.S. banking system. We use confidential data …’s survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante risk taking by banks (as measured by the risk rating of the bank …
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, a risk-adjusted balance sheet relating bank asset values to equity value, default risk, and bank funding costs. Even … though the results show that banks are found to be resilient to shocks, more work on systemic risk models could help analyze … systemic risk under stress scenarios. …
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This paper investigates convergence and dynamic effects of human and physical capital on growth, in WAEMU countries. Using recently developed models for panel data and a growth accounting model, the study finds that growth is largely explained by changes in literacy rates and factor...
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This paper derives risk indicators for the major Chilean banks based on contingent claims analysis, an extension of … Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing theory. These risk indicators are clearly tied to macroeconomic and financial … banks' risk to a tractable number, we apply principal component analysis. Vector autoregressions of risk indicators with the …
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A simple criterion based on the properties of the forecast error is presented to evaluate the accuracy of forecasts. The efficiency conditions of an optimization problem are used to show that under rational expectations the standard statistical conditions are necessary, but not sufficient to...
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This paper develops the theoretical background for the Limited Information Bayesian Model Averaging (LIBMA). The proposed approach accounts for model uncertainty by averaging over all possible combinations of predictors when making inferences about the variables of interest, and it...
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systemic risk in the corporate and financial sectors, as well as systemic sovereign risk; and is also forward looking as it is … END to assess systemic risk in the corporate sector in Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. We also discuss how the END systemic … risk indicator overcomes some of the shortcomings of other vulnerability indicators. …
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