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Leading up to the global financial crisis, US dollar activity by global banks headquartered outside the United States played a crucial role in transmitting shocks originating in funding markets. Although post-crisis regulation has improved banking systems' resilience, US dollar funding remains a...
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centralbanks in reserve currency-issuing countries. Third, in appraising the evolution of relatedvulnerabilities since the crisis …
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We isolate a U.S. dollar currency premium by comparing corporate bonds issued in the dollar and the euro by firms o … without a currency hedge and about the same with a currency hedge when compared to the euro. This observed parity in currency … short maturities, attributes similar to those of safe sovereigns. Finally, we find that firms flexibly adjust the currency …
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these do not display a uniform importance across currency pairs and time, and some are associated with possible temporary …
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This paper examines the impact of Dollar exchange rate volatility on firm productivity in Emerging Markets economies (EMs). Using firm level data covering 16 EMs over the period 1998 -2019, the paper shows that dollar exchange rate volatility reduces firm productivity growth. Exploring channels,...
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This paper investigates possible drivers of volatility in the South African rand since the onset of the global financial crisis. We assess the role played by local and international economic surprises, commodity price volatility, global market risk perceptions, and local political uncertainty....
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accompanied by an increase in the shares of the pound sterling, yen and euro, other long-standing reserve currencies and units …
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) not all crises are equal: evidence for repatriation during banking and currency crises is more limited; and (iii) the …
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In contrast to the early-warning system literature, we find that currency and debt crises are not closely linked in … emerging markets. We find that after 1994, credit ratings predict debt crises but fail to anticipate currency crises. When debt …
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in how the currency composition of reserves is derived …
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