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Well-known empirical puzzles in international macroeconomics concern the large divergence of equilibrium outcomes for consumption across countries from the predictions of models with full risk sharing. It is commonly believed that these risk-sharing puzzles are related to another empirical...
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Distress'. Overall, most U.S. mutual funds are resilient yet high yield (HY) and loan funds would face a liquidity shortfall …
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Do portfolio shifts by the world's largest asset owners respond procyclically to past returns, or countercyclically to …
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In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
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This paper develops a theory of international currency portfolios that holds in general equilibrium, and that is … short (long) position in foreign currency. (4) A fiscal theory of exchange rate determination is compatible with general … equilibrium in a two-country world. (5) Equilibria are determinate when both fiscal and monetary policy are passive …
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In recent decades, the foreign assets and liabilities of advanced economies have grown rapidly relative to GDP, with the increase in gross cross-holdings far exceeding changes in the size of net positions. Moreover, the portfolio equity and FDI categories have grown in importance relative to...
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-form solutions for the volume and the structure of trade. Empirical results support the implications of the theory. Trade in …
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analyzed using standard tools in economics (incentives and principal-agent theory). We discuss the implications of our approach …
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The paper uses finance and agency theory to establish two main propositions: First, that the conditionality attached to …
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