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We analyze the long-run impact of emerging-market sovereign bond yields on corporate bond yields, finding that the … bonds are more liquid. It is also greater for corporate bonds with lower ratings, shorter maturities, and for those issued …
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We assess econometrically the impact of asset shortages on economic growth, asset bubbles, the probability of a crisis, and the current account for a group of 41 Emerging markets for 1995-2008. The econometric estimations confirm that asset shortages pose a serious danger to EMs in terms of...
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-term bond yields. Instead, we find that larger spillovers stem more from structural factors, such as the use of new instruments …
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This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We use different empirical approaches to show that there can indeed be "too much" finance. In particular, our results suggest that finance starts having a...
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another country, these two countries' comovement of bond yields are large. Also, countries' geographical preferences impact …
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sovereign safe assets and German government bonds adjusted for sovereign credit risk, liquidity and swap market frictions. A … higher premium suggests less substitutability of sovereign bonds. We document a rise in the 'Bund premium' in the post …-crisis period. We show that there is a negative relationship of the premium with the relative supply of German sovereign bonds …
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An analysis of mutual-fund-level flow data into EM bond and equity markets confirms that different types of funds … behave differently. Bond funds are more sensitive to global factors and engage more in return chasing than equity funds …
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Over the past two decades, many low-income developing countries have substantially increased openness towards external financing and have received large capital inflows. Using bank-level micro data, this paper finds that capital inflows have been associated with financial deepening through...
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This paper examines whether-and how-emerging market economies (EMEs) respond to capital flows to mitigate their untoward consequences. Based on a sample of about 50 EMEs over 2005Q1-2013Q4, we find that EME policy makers respond proactively to capital inflows by using a combination of policy...
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We study the optimal management of capital flows in a small open economy model with financial frictions and multiple policy instruments. The paper reports two main findings. First, both foreign exchange intervention (FXI) and macroprudential polices are tools complementary to the monetary policy...
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