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Contagion Testing in Embryonic Markets Under Alternative Stressful US Market Scenarios
R. Mahadeo, Scott M. - 2020
We consolidate alternative ways for identifying stable and stressful scenarios in the S&P 500 market to construct contagion tests for recipient markets vulnerable to disturbances from this source market. The S&P 500 is decomposed into discrete conditions of: (1) Tranquil versus turbulent...
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Financial Cycles, Credit Bubbles and Stabilization Policies
Corrado, Luisa - 2019
This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments to mitigate financial bubbles generated in the banking sector. We augment a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework by endogenizing boundedly-rational expectations on asset values of loan portfolios and allow for interbank trading. We...
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Financial Frictions and the Wealth Distribution
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020
We postulate a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector and heterogeneous households. In our model, the interaction between the supply of bonds by the financial sector and the precautionary demand for bonds by households produces significant endogenous aggregate risk. This risk induces an...
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News Shocks Under Financial Frictions
Görtz, Christoph; Tsoukalas, John D.; Zanetti, Francesco - 2021
We examine the dynamic effects and empirical role of TFP news shocks in the context of frictions in financial markets. We document two new facts using VAR methods. First, a (positive) shock to future TFP generates a significant decline in various credit spread indicators considered in the...
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A Reassessment of Monetary Policy Surprises and High-Frequency Identification
Bauer, Michael D.; Swanson, Eric T. - 2022
High-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements are an important tool for identifying the effects of monetary policy on asset prices and the macroeconomy. However, some recent studies have questioned both the exogeneity and the relevance of these monetary policy surprises as...
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Can Time-Varying Currency Risk Hedging Explain Exchange Rates?
Bräuer, Leonie; Hau, Harald - 2022
bond positions, which creates a net hedging demand for dollar assets that depreciates USD rates in both the forward and … spot markets. We document the time-varying nature of this net hedging demand and show how it relates to eco … FX hedging pressure can account for approximately 30% of all monthly variation in the seven most important dollar …
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Carbon Default Swap - Disentangling the Exposure to Carbon Risk Through CDS
Blasberg, Alexander; Kiesel, Ruediger; Taschini, Luca - 2022
Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that carbon risk affects firms’ credit spread. The effect is larger for European than North American firms and varies substantially across industries, suggesting the market recognises...
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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...
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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and...
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Behavioural Credit Cycles
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Iannotta, Gabriele - 2022
We explore the intertwined dynamics of asset prices and the macroeconomy in a Behavioural model of Credit Cycles (BCC) characterized by a credit friction à la Kiyotaki and Moore and heterogeneous expectations cum heuristic switching à la Brock and Hommes. This behavioural approach allows to...
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