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This paper uses micro-level data on mutual funds from different financial centers investing in equity and bonds to study how investors and managers behave and transmit shocks across countries. The paper finds that the volatility of mutual fund investments is driven quantitatively by both the...
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We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...
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valuation gap for firms from developed markets increases by 31% after the GFC - a reversal in financial globalization - while …
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. Financial globalization gathered force. Trade globalization, however, reversed course since the Global Financial Crisis. The new … financial globalization …
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. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of …Post WWII globalization forces are facing headwinds in the form of global crises-the "The Great Recession" and the "The … Pandemic Recession". Israel's trade and financial globalization, however, is steadily rising. The pandemic-induced slump in …
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The global imbalance explanation of the financial crisis of 2007-09 suggests that demand for riskless assets from countries with current account surpluses created fragility in countries with current account deficits, most notably, in the United States. We examine this explanation by analyzing...
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First … large asset price spillovers of country-specific shocks to bank capital. The impact of these shocks on asset prices are … amplified by bank capital requirements based on mark-to-market …
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Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …
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This paper discusses two pertinent issues dealing with the global liquidity crisis -- global prudential regulation reform, and reassessment of using international reserves in the crisis. We point out the paradox of prudential regulations -- while the identity of economic actors that benefited...
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behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …
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