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This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
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We study the cyclicality of public R&D in 28 OECD countries (1995-2017). While procyclical on average, public R&D reacts asymmetrically over different phases of the business cycle and becomes acyclical during recessions. It is also heterogeneous across countries: Innovation leaders and followers...
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Based on the relation between investment and domestic saving proposed by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) to verify capital … autoregressive (SVAR) involving investment and saving in order to evaluate the effect of exogenous shocks through impulse response … showed that investment is sensitive to contemporaneous innovation on saving and this effect lasts for a long time. Regarding …
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transmission of bank distress to the real economy - in particular, to real investment and labor employment by nonfinancial firms … supply downsize their real investment and labor employment significantly. This effect is larger for firms that are unable to …
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A sovereign debt crisis can have significant knock-on effects in the financial markets and put financial stability at risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm...
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This paper uses sovereign CDS spread changes and their volatilities as a proxy for the informational efficiency of the sovereign markets and persistency of country risks. Specifically, we apply semi-parametric and parametric methods to the sovereign CDSs of 10 eurozone countries to test the...
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