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The paper analyses and compares the role that the tightening in liquidity conditions and the collapse in risk appetite … empirical exercise with a Global VAR approach, the findings highlight the diversity of the transmission process. While liquidity … played for the global transmission of the financial crisis. Dealing with identification and the large dimensionality of the …
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finds that common shocks--key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk--have exerted a large effect on … risk and the strength of domestic macroeconomic fundamentals. Comparing and quantifying these effects shows that common …
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The main goal of this article is to provide an answer to the question: "Does anything forecast exchange rates, and if so, which variables?". It is well known that exchange rate fluctuations are very difficult to predict using economic models, and that a random walk forecasts exchange rates...
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Financial globalization has seen the emergence of a new monetary standard based on inflation targeting. At the same time the most financially advanced economies moved away from exchange rate targeting which also characterized the previous era of globalization - the era of the Classical Gold...
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Even after one of the most severe multi-year crises on record in the advanced economies, the received wisdom in policy circles clings to the notion that high-income countries are completely different from their emerging market counterparts. The current phase of the official policy approach is...
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We study the changing international transmission of US financial shocks over the period 1971-2009. Financial shocks are … transmission to GDP growth in European countries has increased gradually since the 1980s, consistent with financial globalization …
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investigate how such a bank capital requirement affects the international transmission of productivity and loan default shocks …. Three findings emerge. First, the bank's capital requirement has little effect on the international transmission of … thus suggest that global banks may have played an important role in the international transmission of the crisis. …
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the cross-section of banks; and, the negative German loading reflects funding risk (flight away from bank funding to … German government bonds), a risk that is increasing in the US money market mutual fund exposures of European banks as well as … various proxies for bank short-term debt. Large banks and banks with low Tier 1 ratios and high risk-weighted assets had …
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Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics - the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio - appear as anomalies from the perspective of conventional wisdom and...
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assets. The target is the level of assets that balances impatience, prudence, risk, intertemporal substitution, and the rate …
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