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formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates … evidence of divergent behavior in the dynamics of return spillovers vs. volatility spillovers: Return spillovers display a … gently increasing trend but no bursts, whereas volatility spillovers display no trend but clear bursts …
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The amount of information produced about firms' productivities and about the quality of collateral backing their loans varies over time. These information dynamics determine the evolution of credit, output and productivity, which feeds back into incentives to produce information. We characterize...
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-varying uncertainty (i.e., volatility) about future economic prospects drive asset prices. These two channels of economic risks can … account for the risk premia and asset price fluctuations. In addition, the model can empirically account for the cross …
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qualitatively: (i) equity premium puzzle (ii) risk-free rate-puzzle (iii) excess volatility puzzle (iv) predictability of aggregate …This paper incorporates a time-varying intensity of disasters in the Rietz-Barro hypothesis that risk premia result …-varying amount. This in turn generates time-varying risk premia and thus volatile asset prices and return predictability. Using the …
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This paper introduces a framework for analyzing the role of financial factors as a source of instability in small open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic open economy model with a tradeable good produced with capital and a country-specific factor. We also assume that firms face credit...
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model of time-varying labor income risk and study the implications of stochastic covariance between labor income and … dividends for the dynamics of the risk premiums on financial wealth and human capital …
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conditions like risk sentiment, discussed in the context of the global financial cycle, depends on the characteristics and … provides policy-relevant lessons. International spillovers of monetary policy and risk sentiment through global liquidity … partially alleviated. However, risk migration across types of financial intermediaries underscores the importance of advancing …
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finance, which emphasize the extreme volatility and boom-bust dynamics of key time series, such as stock prices, credit, and … relaxing the assumption of rational expectations is a promising strategy, helps theory and evidence go together, and offers a …
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing...
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In most countries, suppliers of intermediate goods and services are also the main providers of short-term financing to firms. This paper studies the macroeconomic implications of these financial links. In our model, trade credit is the outcome of a long-term contract between firms linked in the...
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