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The global financial crisis has brought increased attention to the consequences of international reserves holdings. In an era of high financial integration, we investigate the relationship between the real exchange rate and international reserves using nonlinear regressions and panel threshold...
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This study examines the macro drivers of the time-varying (dynamic) connectedness between eleven European tourism sectors. Financial integration between the travel and leisure markets, measured by their dynamic correlations or co-movement, is explained by common global fundamentals. The...
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The "monetary trilemma" - the hypothesis that full monetary policy autonomy, exchange rate stability, and financial openness cannot simultaneously be achieved - has long been studied. Recently, holding international reserves (IR) has become an important policy instrument, insuring against...
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detriment of the rest of the world. Finally, we study the implications of increasing competition in safe assets from other …
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We develop a theory to account for changes in gross and net capital flows over the global financial cycle (GFC). The theory relies critically on portfolio heterogeneity among investors within and across countries, related to risky portfolio shares and portfolio shares allocated to foreign...
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The traditional school of economic policy analysis predicts that globalisation will give rise to predatory competition between the governments of the European nation states. The consequence is anticipated to be a marked reduction in, if not the destruction of, the benevolent Welfare State. The...
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Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...
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Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper presents evidence that the expansion of global value chains (GVCs), ie cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services, is an important channel through which global...
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This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … economic globalization is negative and statistically significant for the first three years following the shock. This finding is … obtained by controlling for several intermediary channels in globalization-shadow economy nexus such as education, government …
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We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
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