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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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unknown future basket weights optimally forecasted from past exchange rate data? And, second, how is risk—in terms of the …
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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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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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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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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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This paper assesses liquidity risk for the United States (U.S.) bond mutual funds industry and performs a range of …
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Investors seek to hedge against interest rate risk by taking long or short positions on bonds of different maturities …. We study changes in risk taking behavior in a low interest rate environment by estimating a market stochastic discount … literature. We provide evidence that non-linearities arise from hedging strategies of investors exposed to interest rate risk …
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currency compositions in imports invoicing and short-term external debt, and risk and returns of reserve currencies can be …
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portfolio theory without recourse to market imperfections. It also demonstrates that “Value-at-Risk” portfolio management rules … optimal to sell many higher-risk assets when a shock to one asset occurs …
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