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This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...
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's vulnerability to periods of heightened risk and uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to evaluate such vulnerabilities. It … and explore how they are affected by domestic and global risk. We apply this framework to ten OECD economies, showing the … Kingdom, show that a substantial degree of international risk sharing can occur through current accounts and international …
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We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two … international risk sharing concerns enter the unemployment insurance trade-off. We calibrate our model to Eurozone data and find …
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This paper considers factor estimation from heterogenous data, where some of the variables are noisy and only weakly informative for the factors. To identify the irrelevant variables, we search for zero rows in the loadings matrix of the factor model. To sharply separate these irrelevant...
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Network (IBRN), established in 2012, brings together researchers from around the world with access to micro-data on individual … studies conducted in 11 countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that explanatory … power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk …
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Does a shift to ambitious climate policy increase financial fragility? In this paper, we develop a quantitative macroeconomic model with carbon taxes and endogenous financial crises to study such "Climate Minsky Moments". By reducing asset returns, an accelerated transition to net zero exerts...
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risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … effects from sovereign risk to domestic insurers. The impact on insurers is larger than for non-financial firms and slightly … on European data, we show that risks in sovereign bond portfolios are an important driver of insurer risk, which is not …
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This paper investigates the international business cycle with new sector level data on hours and output for Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States from 1992 Q1 to 2011 Q3. We estimate a Bayesian dynamic common factor model on this disaggregate data to decompose...
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