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Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that …
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When firms borrow in foreign currency but collect revenues in local currency, exchange rate changes can affect their ability to repay their debt. Using loan-level data from U.S. banks' regulatory filings, this paper studies the effect of exchange rate changes on firms’ loan payments. A 10...
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We study the determinants of China's bilateral local currency swap lines that were established since the recent global … a swap line agreement. Once a swap line agreement decision is made, the size of the swap line is then mainly affected by …
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Swap lines between advanced-economy central banks are a new important part of the global financial architecture. This … shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit from the source central bank to the recipient-country banks using the … shows that the swap-line rate puts a ceiling on deviations from covered interest parity, and finds evidence for it in the …
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This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...
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We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption risk sharing: we find that countries with the most...
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This interdisciplinary paper explains how mathematical techniques of stochastic optimal control can be applied to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal...
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We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than "old" ones. We...
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The rapidly growing federal government debt has become a concern for policy makers and the public. Yet the U.S. government has seemingly unbounded access to credit at low interest rates. Historically, Treasury yields have been below the growth rate of the economy. The paper examines the...
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