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last resort, measures aimed at coordinating creditors in crises, and a tax on short-term capital flows. These measures may …
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effective in countries with high external debt; and (iv) is less effective in countries with high capital account openness. We …
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We present a model of the maturity of a bank's uninsured debt. The bank borrows funds and chooses afterwards the riskiness of its assets. This moral hazard problem leads to an excessive level of risk. Short-term debt may have a disciplining effect on the bank's risk-shifting incentives, but it...
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This paper addresses how creditor protection affects the volatility of stock market prices. Credit protection reduces the probability of oscillations between binding and non-binding states of the credit constraint; thereby lowering the rate of return variance. We test this prediction of a...
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Is sovereign debt so different from corporate debt that there is no need for bankruptcy procedures to handle potential defaults? The basic tools of finance seem to confirm that, without water-tight sovereign immunity, creditors face a Prisoner’s Dilemma: litiginous creditors may be tempted to...
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financial stability. It sets the issues in the broader framework of financial globalization and international capital mobility … internal stability in the euro area and has promoted a dynamic development of capital markets. But in some respects, monetary …
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In recent decades, foreign assets and liabilities in advanced countries have grown rapidly relative to GDP, with the increase in gross cross-holdings far exceeding the size of net positions. Moreover, the portfolio equity and FDI categories have grown in importance relative to international debt...
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suggests that it was not the exchange rate regime followed that mattered for deeper integration but the presence of capital … century forbearers. To obtain access to foreign capital they may need a hard peg to the core country currencies, or else can … resort to capital controls. Thus the key distinction between the exchange rate regime of core and periphery countries both …
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This paper constructs a new measure of currency mismatch in the banking sector that controls for bank lending to unhedged borrowers. This measure explicitly takes into account the indirect exchange rate risk that banks undertake when they lend to borrowers that will not be able to repay in the...
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that ECB liquidity and official external assistance have cushioned the exit of private capital flows for some countries. …
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