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currencies, and the euro serves as a hedge currency. Results for the yen support its role as a carry funding vehicle, but not … fundamental determinants. We therefore address the question of whether a supposed safe haven currency only appreciates in times of … crises because carry trades are unwound, in which the corresponding currency has served as funding currency, or whether it …
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explanatory power for the cross-sectional variation in expected currency market returns, while those of the average dealer provide …
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We address the question of whether various types of speculative investor correctly anticipate future USD/EUR currency … favor of a causal relationship from speculative positions to exchange rate movements, and therefore an inefficient Euro …
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This paper examines how the exposure of German parent banks to the disruptions on sale and repurchase markets (repo markets) during the financial crisis has affected their provision of funds to their foreign branches and subsidiaries via bank-internal capital markets. The collapse of the...
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. Exchange market pressure is a measure of excess currency demand that is applicable across different exchange rate regimes as it …
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The British foreign exchange reserves decreased by 40 percent during the period August 1996 - December 1999 although the Pound Sterling is considered a floating exchange rate since it left the EMS in 1992. Since changes in the level of foreign exchange reserves are usually taken as indicators...
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We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on the compositional supply effects through cross-border and relationship lending. For empirical identification, we draw on the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset...
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This paper introduces a new transmission channel of banking crises where sizable cross-border bank claims on foreign countries with high domestic crisis risk enable contagion to the home economy. This asset-side channel opposes traditional views that see banking crises originating from either...
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the world. By tightening financial conditions globally, these shocks affect the left tail of the conditional output growth … flexible exchange rate arrangements, higher foreign currency exposures, and higher levels of private sector leverage …
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