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between integration and synchronization depends on the type of shocks hitting the world economy, and that shocks to global …
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This paper develops and implements a framework for quantifying the gains to international trade in risky financial assets. The framework can handle may agents, many assets, incomplete markets and limited participation in asset markets. It delivers closed-form analytic solutions for consumption,...
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prediction that globalization decreases the cost of capital, but the documented effects are lower than theory leads us to expect …
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For several decades until the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Covered Interest Parity (CIP) appeared to hold quite closely--even as a broad macroeconomic relationship applying to daily or weekly data. Not only have CIP deviations significantly increased since the GFC, but potential macrofinancial...
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International macro-finance is a new area of open economy macroeconomics that brings portfolio choice and asset pricing considerations into models of international macroeconomics. The importance of these considerations--typically relegated to Finance and largely overlooked in traditional...
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simplistic models arguing for financial integration typically employed in economics assume convexity; but the world is rife with …
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...
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in equity and debt markets. Such developments are often attributed to the increased integration of world financial … markets. We present a model that allows us to examine how greater integration in world financial markets affects the behavior … concentrated in bonds. As integration progresses and households gain access to world equity markets, the size and volatility of …
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