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What do we know about the global financial safety net? : a new comprehensive data set
Scheubel, Beatrice; Stracca, Livio - 2016
This paper critically reviews the theoretical basis for the provision of the global financial safety net (GFSN) and provide a comprehensive database covering four elements of the GFSN (foreign exchange reserves, IMF financing, central bank swap lines and regional financing arrangements) for over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565481
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Global and regional financial integration in emerging Asia : evidence from stock markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; You, Kefei - 2017
This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654611
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The global effects of Covid-19-induced uncertainty
Caggiano, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem; Kima, Richard - 2020
We estimate a three-variate VAR using proxies of global financial uncertainty, the global financial cycle, and world … outbreak. We predict the cumulative loss in world output one year after the uncertainty shock due to Covid-19 to be about 14%. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213164
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Global uncertainty
Caggiano, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem - 2021
the world output loss that materialized during the great recession would have been 13% lower in absence of GFU shocks. We … after GFU shocks, the larger the world output contraction is. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431805
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Global banking, trade, and the international transmission of the great recession
Born, Alexandra; Enders, Zeno - 2018
large parts of the world. In this paper we explore the financial and the trade channel in a unified framework and quantify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800166
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Unbalanced financial globalization
Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … wedges are fixed at their pre-globalization levels. We find that unbalanced financial globalization led to a worsening of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340224
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The crisis in the foreign exchange market
Melvin, Michael; Taylor, Mark P. - 2009
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 had major implications for the foreign exchange market. We review events and implications for exchange rates, volatility, returns to currency investing, and transaction costs. This blow-by-blowʺ narrative is intended to be a resource for researchers seeking a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861767
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International Financial Crises
Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley - 2003
Our friend and colleague Rüdiger Dornbusch passed away before he was able tocomplete his book based on the Munich Lectures in Economics that he gave inNovember 17, 1998, at the Center for Economic Studies of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.The lectures contain a fascinating overview of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507825
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Alternative measures for the global financial cycle : do they make a difference?
Tian, Xin; Jacobs, Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2022
We construct several measures for the global financial cycle using dynamic factor models and data for 25 advanced and emerging countries over 1980-2019. Our results suggest that global cycles in asset prices and capital flows are highly similar and synchronized, especially during crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186798
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Stigma? What Stigma? : a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of IMF lending
Scheubel, Beatrice; Tafuro, Andrea; Vonessen, Benjamin - 2018
There is a perception that IMF programmes are not catalytic and instead associated with large capital outflows, higher refinancing costs for sovereigns and adverse movements in stock markets. This has led to concerns that an expectation of adverse effects of IMF programmes may deter countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846238