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This paper analyses whether sovereign default episodes can be seen as contingencies of optimal international lending contracts. The model considers a small open economy with capital accumulation and without commitment to repay debt. Taking first order approximations of Bellman equations, I...
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identical, implying that the concentration of liquidity in one asset is socially desirable. At the same time, too many buyers …
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argument for the existence of safe harbours is liquidity in the financial market. Safe harbour rules do away with a number of … legal concepts, notably those attached to traditional security, and thereby allow for an exponentiation of liquidity … liquidity. To the extent that safe harbours accelerate contagion in terms of crisis, which in principle is a valid argument …
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that they must deliver the asset they borrowed. As a result, that asset enjoys both greater liquidity, measured by search … times, and a higher lending fee ("specialness"). Liquidity and specialness translate into price premia that are consistent …
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We provide a model that links an asset's market liquidity; i.e., the ease with which it is traded; and traders' funding … liquidity, i.e. the ease with which they can obtain funding. Traders provide market liquidity, and their ability to do so …, depend on the assets' market liquidity. We show that, under certain conditions, margins are destabilizing and market …
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risk. To do so, the article unravels the much-misunderstood experiences of eight Norwegian municipalities whose investments … analytical concepts—“the fetishization of the knowledge of risk” and “fictitious distance”—to help explain how the crisis spread …
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risk information in the global economy. The paper examines the current state of the financial risk framework, notes its … place. The proposed open-source financial risk model separates the dual function that internal risk models perform within … financial institutions, first to attempt to optimize the risk-return profile of mostly private economic rent-seeking entities …
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The Story of the Hats is a puzzle in social epistemology. It describes a situation in which a group of rational agents with common priors and common goals seems vulnerable to a Dutch book if they are exposed to different information and make decisions independently. Situations in which this...
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This paper focuses on an econometric investigation of the macroeconomic and political factors that contributed to Greece’s excessive debt accumulation and its failure to adequately address its fiscal imbalances, from the restoration of democracy in 1974 till the crisis of 2009. The econometric...
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Recent work (including that of the author) on the impact of FDI has been based on microlevel (i.e. firms, establishments or plants) data, since this allows much greater control when examining such issues as whether FDI plants are more productive or innovative; whether there are spillovers to...
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