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existence of deposit guarantees in lender countries. The paper shows that, after restrictions on international capital flows are … through domestic banks. The results are consistent with the surge in international bank lending flows that led to recent …
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Does country ""transparency"" affect international portfolio investment? We examine this and related questions using a … unique micro dataset on international portfolio holdings. We employ various indices of government and corporate transparency … transparent countries. Herding among funds is somewhat less prevalent in more transparent countries. During the Asian and Russian …
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We test for the existence of a moral hazard effect attributable to official crisis lending by analyzing the evolution of sovereign bond spreads in emerging markets before and after the Russian crisis. The nonbailout of Russia in August 1998 is interpreted as an event that decreased the perceived...
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Globally, financial institutions have increased their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, tightening the linkage between the health of the financial system and the level of sovereign debt, or the "financial sector-sovereign nexus," during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, the...
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Building on the vast literature, this paper focuses on the role of the structure of the international investment …
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Abstract In this paper we ask whether countries can influence their exposure to changes in global financial conditions. Specifically, we show that even though we can model cross-country capital flows via a global factor that closely tracks changes in global financial conditions, there is a large...
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This paper assesses the role of bank and nonbank financial institutions' balance sheet foreign exposures and risk management practices in driving capital flow responses to global risk. Using a unique and previously unexplored dataset on domestic and cross border balance sheet positions of...
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