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This paper investigates the implications of international financial sanctions for the reserve currency status of the US dollar. We propose a simple model of a reserve currency, demonstrate how the anticipation of financial sanctions can weaken the dollar's status, and evaluate the welfare...
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Over the last two decades, the unprecedented increase in non-bank financial intermediation, particularly open-end mutual funds and ETFs, accounts for nearly half of the external financing flows to emerging markets exceeding cross-border lending by global banks. Evidence suggests that investment...
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obstacles appeared following the global financial crisis and the euro crisis. In many CESEE countries, the quality of … provide guidelines that are useful for returning to the trajectory observed before the euro crisis by identifying the main …
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The paper explores empirically the tight links between exchange rates and the global network of equity holdings. Exchange rates can be expressed in terms of "equity net currency supplies", i.e. local currency stock market capitalization minus equity holdings, denominated in investors'...
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Foreign investors' changing appetite for risk-taking have been shown to be a key determinant of the global financial cycle. Such fluctuations in risk sentiment also correlate with the dynamics of UIP premia, capital flows, and exchange rates. To understand how these risk sentiment changes...
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This paper explores how non-U.S. central banks behave when firms in their economies engage in currency mismatch, borrowing more heavily in dollars than justified by their operating exposures. We begin by documenting that, in a panel of 53 countries, central bank holdings of dollar reserves are...
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rollover crisis. In the model, it is optimal for the government to reduce its vulnerability by initially lowering debt, and … then increasing both debt and reserves as it approaches a safe zone. Furthermore, we find that issuing additional debt to …
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their expenditures with nominal debt and inflation has a negative impact on aggregate productivity. If the monetary … fiscal externality. In this case, when a country-level fiscal authority chooses a higher level of nominal debt, it induces … the monetary authority to inflate more to reduce the level of distortionary taxes needed to finance the higher debt …
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The fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of …
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We investigate the determinants of emerging markets performance during five U.S. Federal Reserve monetary tightening and easing cycles during 2004-2023. We study how macroeconomic and institutional conditions of an Emerging Market (EM) at the beginning of a cycle explain EM resilience during...
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