Similar Search Results

Real Estate Valuation, Current Account and Credit Growth Patterns, Before and After the 2008-9 Crisis

Aizenman, Joshua - 2013

We explore the stability of the conditioning variables accounting for the real estate valuation before and after the crisis of 2008-9, in a panel of 36 countries, recognizing the crisis break. We validate the robustness of the association between the real estate valuation and lagged current...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459473

When Is There a Strong Transfer Risk from the Sovereigns to the Corporates? Property Rights Gaps and CDS Spreads

Bai, Jennie - 2012

When a sovereign faces the risk of debt default, it may be tempted to expropriate the private sector. This may be one … reason for why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood … of a transfer from the sovereign risk to corporate default risks may be mitigated by legal institutions that provide …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460062

Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads

Aizenman, Joshua - 2012

This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, 2009 and 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460484

Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels

Tong, Hui - 2011

How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461026

Capital Flows and Economic Growth in the Era of Financial Integration and Crisis, 1990-2010

Aizenman, Joshua - 2011

We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging markets became more integrated into the international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461155

The Fiscal Stimulus of 2009-10 : Trade Openness, Fiscal Space and Exchange Rate Adjustment

Aizenman, Joshua - 2011

This paper studies the cross-country variation of the fiscal stimulus and the exchange rate adjustment propagated by the global crisis of 2008-9, identifying the role of economic structure in accounting for the heterogeneity of response. We find that greater de facto fiscal space prior to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461231

From the Financial Crisis to the Real Economy : Using Firm-level Data to Identify Transmission Channels

Claessens, Stijn - 2011

Using accounting data for 7722 non-financial firms in 42 countries, we examine how the 2007-2009 crisis affected firm performance and how various linkages propagated shocks across borders. We isolate and compare effects from changes in external financing conditions, domestic demand, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461298

De facto Fiscal Space and Fiscal Stimulus : Definition and Assessment

Aizenman, Joshua - 2010

We define the notion of a 'de facto fiscal space' of a country as the inverse of the tax-years it would take to repay the public debt. Specifically, we measure the outstanding public debt relative to the de facto tax base, where the latter measures the realized tax collection, averaged across...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462118

The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle : A Firm-level Cross-country Perspective

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2010

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms, especially in resource sectors, and mis-governance of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462224

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due : Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains

Koopman, Robert - 2010

This paper provides both a conceptual framework for decomposing a country's gross exports into value-added components by source and a new bilateral database on value-added trade. Our parsimonious framework integrates all previous measures of vertical specialization and value-added trade in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462230