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Central bank balance sheet policies and spillovers to emerging markets

Kumar, Manmohan S.; Wang, Haobin - 2017

We develop a theoretical model that shows that in the near future, the monetary policies of some key central banks in advanced economies (AEs) will have two dimensions-changes in short-term policy rates and balance sheet adjustments. This will affect emerging market economies (EMs), especially...

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Emerging Equity Markets in Middle Eastern Countries

El-Erian, Mohamed A. - 1994

Within a broad framework for analyzing portfolio capital flows to developing countries, the paper undertakes a comparative analysis of equity markets in six Middle Eastern countries. The analysis, based primarily on a range of quantitative indicators, identifies the principal characteristics of...

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Emerging market securities access to global plumbing

Choi, Gongpil; Ortega, Federico; Kumar, Manmohan S. - 2021

What are the constraints that have stalled EMs efforts to reuse their securities in international financial centers? We discuss the economics of collateral re-use and the present institutional structure in Asian and Latin American countries. Our empirical investigation suggests pledgeability...

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Fiscal and Monetary Nexus in Emerging Market Economies : How Does Debt Matter?

Vasishtha, Garima - 2006

This paper examines two main aspects of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy in emerging market economies. First, it explores the interest rate-inflation relationship in economies with different levels of external and domestic public debt using panel- and crosssection data. The...

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Public Debt and Growth

Woo, Jaejoon - 2010

This paper explores the impact of high public debt on long-run economic growth. The analysis, based on a panel of advanced and emerging economies over almost four decades, takes into account a broad range of determinants of growth as well as various estimation issues including reverse causality...

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Policy Credibility and Sovereign Credit : The Case of New EU Member States

Kumar, Manmohan S. - 2007

References to policy credibility, particularly with regard to fiscal policy, are ubiquitous in both economic literature and financial markets, even though it is not directly observable. The case of the EU new member states (NMS)-emerging markets joining a supranational entity that is generally...

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Predicting Emerging Market Currency Crashes

Perraudin, W. R. M. - 2002

This paper assesses the extent to which crashes in emerging market currencies are predictable using simple logit models based on lagged macroeconomic and financial data. To evaluate our model, we calculate trading strategies in which an investor goes long or short in the currency depending on...

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Fatal Attraction : A New Measure of Contagion

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2003

This paper proposes a new measure of contagion that is good at anticipating future vulnerabilities. Building on … previous work, it uses correlations of equity markets across countries to measure contagion, but in a departure from previous … practice it measures contagion using the relationship of these correlations with distance. Also in contrast to previous work …

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Financial Globalization and Fiscal Perfomance in Emerging Markets

Hauner, David - 2005

In recent years financial globalization and benign global market conditions have helped emerging markets in their external financing and budgetary positions. This paper examines three related issues: (i) the importance of the impact of the benign financial environment on fiscal performance; (ii)...

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Fiscal Adjustments : Determinants and Macroeconomic Consequences

Plekhanov, Alexander - 2007

The paper analyzes the determinants of success of recent fiscal consolidations in the OECD countries as well as the short-run and long-run effects of fiscal adjustments on economic activity by looking at fourteen case studies, panel data for OECD countries, and the results of simulations using a...

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