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year window before risk-off shocks experienced relatively lower external finance premia and exchange rate volatility during …-off shocks on countries’ funding costs and exchange rate volatility, preemptive policies enable countries’ continued access to …
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This paper examines the impact of international financial integration on macroeconomic volatility in a large group of … industrial and developing economies over the period 1960-99. We report two major results: First, while the volatility of output … volatility of consumption growth relative to that of income growth has increased for more financially integrated developing …
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The paper finds significant deviations between short-term emerging market real interest rates and world real interest rates primarily due to the inflationary expectations of the local investor base. We test for long-run real interest convergence in emerging markets using a time varying panel...
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Capital flow volatility is a concern for macroeconomic and financial stability. Nonetheless, literature is scarce in … period 1970Q1-2016Q1, we construct three measures of volatility, for total capital flows and key instruments. Second, we … perform panel regressions to understand the determinants of volatility. The measures show that the volatility of all …
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This paper examines why surges in capital flows to emerging market economies (EMEs) occur, and what determines the allocation of capital across countries during such surge episodes. We use two different methodologies to identify surges in EMEs over 1980-2009, differentiating between those mainly...
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theoretical and empirical evidence to show that differences in underlying macroeconomic volatility are key. While volatility … higher default risk that volatility engenders …
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Holding foreign assets reduces the volatility of a country's income by allowing countries to share risk. Yet, financial …
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We use data on the extent to which residents of one country hold the bonds of issuers resident in another as a measure of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base case in which the purchaser and issuer of the bonds reside...
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positive) correlation between exchange rate volatility and the level of investment …
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This paper investigates the extent to which financial markets in the Pacific Basin Region have become more integrated, by analyzing the comovements of real interest rates. The paper uses cointegration and error correction models and draws inferences on the degree of capital market integration by...
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