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There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...
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volatility risk, for dollar, euro and pound rates at a daily frequency, between October 1998 and August 2006. The measurement of … structure, more evident for dollar and euro rates than for pound rates. The volatility risk premium is strongly changing through …. The latter induce more sizeable changes on compensation for volatility risk of dollar rates than of euro or pound rates …
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This paper offers new evidence on the emergence of the dollar as the leading international currency, focusing on its … surmount sterling's head start. The finding that a shift from a unipolar to a multipolar international monetary and financial … of the dollar's emergence points to the challenges facing currencies aspiring to international status …
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A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
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A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159289
The empirical literature on systemic banking crises (SBCs) has shown that SBCs are rare events that break out in the midst of credit intensive booms and bring about particularly deep and long-lasting recessions. We attempt to explain these phenomena within a dynamic general equilibrium model...
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This paper presents a novel approach to investigate and model the network of euro area banks' large exposures within … risk of the euro area banking system based on bilateral linkages. We then develop a Contagion Mapping (CoMap) methodology … that tipping points shifting the euro area banking system from a less vulnerable state to a highly vulnerable state are a …
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This paper argues that counter-cyclical liquidity hoarding by financial intermediaries may strongly amplify business cycles. It develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which banks operate subject to agency problems and funding liquidity risk in their inter- mediation activity....
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The primary driver of commercial bank failures during the Great Recession was exposure to the real estate sector, not aggregate funding strains. The main "toxic" exposure was credit to non-household real estate borrowers, not traditional home mortgages or agency-issued MBS. Private-label MBS...
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This paper assesses the trends of some main macroeconomic and macro-financial variables across different time horizons related to systemic banking crises. Specifically, by gradually shifting the observation horizon of the same statistical model across time, it observes how these variables are...
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