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America First? : a US-centric view of global capital flows
McQuade, Peter; Schmitz, Martin - 2019
with those of the rest of the world. We analyse the relative importance of US, country-specific, and global variables as …. Global and national risk indicators perform better in explaining "rest of the world" flows. Moreover, we find that the … correlation between US and rest of the world flows peaks in periods of elevated uncertainty. We interpret our findings as evidence …
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Negative rates, monetary policy transmission and cross-border lending via international financial centres
Andreeva, Desislava Č.; Coman, Andra; Everett, Mary; … - 2023
We study the effects of negative interest rate policies (NIRP) on the transmission of monetary policy through cross-border lending. Using bank-level data from international financial centres - the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Ireland - we examine how NIRP in the economies where banks have their...
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International capital flows at the security level : evidence from the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme
Bergant, Katharina; Fidora, Michael; Schmitz, Martin - 2020
We analyse euro area investors' portfolio rebalancing during the ECB's Asset Purchase Pro- gramme at the security level. Based on net transactions of domestic and foreign securities, we observe euro area sectors' capital ows into individual securities, cleaned from valuation effects. Our...
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The global capital flows cycle : structural drivers and transmission channels
Habib, Maurizio Michael; Venditti, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we study the effects of structural shocks that influence global risk - the main factor behind a "global capital flows cycle" - and how risk, in turn, is transmitted to capital flows. Our results show that not all the risk shocks driving the global financial cycle have the same...
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The fundamentals of safe assets
Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio; Venditti, Fabrizio - 2020
We study what makes government bonds a safe asset. Building on a sample of monthly changes in government bond yields in 40 advanced and emerging countries, we analyse the sensitivity of yields to country specific fundamentals interacted with changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia...
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Tracking global economic uncertainty : implications for the euro area
Bobasu, Alina; Geis, André; Quaglietti, Lucia; Ricci, … - 2021
This paper sheds light on the impact of global macroeconomic uncertainty on the euro area economy. We build on the methodology proposed by Jurado et al. (2015) and estimate global as well as country-specific measures of economic uncertainty for fifteen key euro area trade partners and the euro...
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Investment funds, monetary policy, and the global financial cycle
Kaufmann, Christoph - 2020
financial markets world-wide gained importance during the post-crisis "second phase of global liquidity" (Shin, 2013). The …
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Monetary policy spillovers, capital controls and exchange rate flexibility, and the financial channel of exchange rates
Georgiadis, Georgios; Zhu, Feng - 2019
We assess the empirical validity of the trilemma (or impossible trinity) in the 2000s for a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. To do so, we estimate Taylor-rule type monetary policy reaction functions, relating the local policy rate to real-time forecasts of domestic fundamentals,...
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Risk, monetary policy and asset prices in a global world
Bekaert, Geert; Hoerova, Marie; Xu, Nancy R. - 2023
We study how monetary policy and risk shocks affect asset prices in the US, the euro area, and Japan, differentiating between "traditional" monetary policy and communication events, each decomposed into "pure" and information shocks. Communication shocks from the US spill over to risk in the...
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Financial frictions : micro vs macro volatility
Lee, Seungcheol; Luetticke, Ralph; Ravn, Morten O. - 2021
We introduce frictional financial intermediation into a HANK model. Households are subject to idiosyncratic and aggregate risk and smooth consumption through savings and consumer loans intermediated by banks. The banking friction introduces an endogenous countercyclical spread between the...
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