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We evaluate the proposal for official dollarization in Costa Rica by applying a new approach to measure the business … hypothesis that the two countries share a common business cycle. Based on this evidence, we conclude that official dollarization … correlation of shocks. -- dollarization ; business cycle comovement ; serial correlation common feature ; Central America, Costa …
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Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter's currency. We then study the relationship between invoicing currency choices and...
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In this paper, we study the drivers of permanent and transitory deposit dollarization for a sample of CESE countries … permanent dollarization and Minimum Variance Portfolio (MVP) share. This provides an additional empirical validation of the MVP … method as the standard tool for analyzing financial dollarization. In the long run, agents make savings decisions based on …
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We analyze the effect of European Union (EU) membership on financial dollarization for the Central and Eastern European … membership and EU entry have a direct impact on deposit and loan dollarization. EU membership reduces deposit dollarization while … it increases loan dollarization. The negative effect on deposit dollarization captures the increased confidence of the …
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Can environmentally-minded investors impact the cost of capital of green firms even when they invest through financial intermediaries? To answer this and related questions, I build an equilibrium intermediary asset pricing model with three investors, two risky assets, and a riskless bond....
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This paper develops a dynamic two-country neoclassical stochastic growth model with incomplete markets. Short-term credit flows can be excessive and reverse suddenly. The equilibrium outcome is constrained inefficient due to pecuniary externalities. First, an undercapitalized country borrows too...
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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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In the winter 2011/12 a wave of internal capital flight prompted the ECB to abandon its exit strategy and to announce an unprecedented monetary expansion. We analyze this episode in several dimensions: (i) by providing an event-study analysis covering key variables from national central banks'...
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We develop a simple model that highlights the costs and benefits of fixed exchange rates as they relate to trade, and show that negative export-price shocks reduce fiscal revenue and increase the likelihood of an expected currency devaluation. Using a new high-frequency data set on...
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