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International macroeconomic policy coordination is generally considered to be made less likely—and less profitable—by the presence of uncertainty about how the economy works. The present paper provides a counter-example, in which increased uncertainty about portfolio preference of investors...
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and then asses how they affect an emerging economy whose interest rate is affected by a world risk-free rate and a risk …
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suggest that idiosyncratic risk is: higher at times of large return outcomes for the asset class as a whole; positively … autocorrelated; and correlated across different asset classes. The implications for risk management are discussed …
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We study a banking model in which banks invest in a riskless asset and compete in both deposit and risky loan markets. The model predicts that as competition increases, both loans and assets increase; however, the effect on the loans-to-assets ratio is ambiguous. Similarly, as competition...
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unknown future basket weights optimally forecasted from past exchange rate data? And, second, how is risk—in terms of the …
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We consider how fear of model misspecification on the part of the planner and/or the households affects welfare gains from optimal macroprudential taxes in an economy with occasionally binding collateral constraints as in Bianchi (2011). On the one hand, there exist welfare gains from...
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This paper assesses liquidity risk for the United States (U.S.) bond mutual funds industry and performs a range of …
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This paper reviews the rules in place in selected countries to limit risk concentrations in the credit portfolio. The … in imposing standards for risk diversification in the credit portfolio. The issues reviewed for each country are the …
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, and its legacy on sovereign balance sheets, reaffirms the need for strengthening financial risk management. This paper … perspective, the SALM approach could help detect direct and derived sovereign risk exposures. It allows analyzing the financial … risk. The paper also outlines institutional requirements in implementing an SALM framework and seeks to lay the ground for …
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An approach for minimizing risk through diversification of foreign exchange reserves and sovereign borrowings is …--differs from past work in that the elements of exchange and price risk associated with trade and payments are considered in the …
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