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What is global liquidity and how does it affect an economy? The paper addresses that question by looking at liquidity … from two different perspectives: global liquidity as availability of funds in safe and risky asset markets. This … policy to restore a function of risky asset markets. To analyze the effect of global liquidity, I construct proxy variables …
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Portfolio credit risk measurement is greatly affected by data constraints, especially when focusing on loans given to unlisted firms. Standard methodologies adopt convenient, but not necessarily properly specified parametric distributions or simply ignore the effects of macroeconomic shocks on...
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The spread of COVID-19, containment measures, and general uncertainty led to a sharp reduction in activity in the first half of 2020. Europe was hit particularly hard-the economic contraction in 2020 is estimated to have been among the largest in the world-with potentially severe repercussions...
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. Liquidity stress tests have been applied in parallel to and independently from solvency stress tests, based on scenarios which … testing of solvency and liquidity: our approach exploits the mechanisms underlying the solvency-liquidity nexus to derive … relations between solvency shocks and liquidity shocks. These relations are then used to model liquidity and solvency risk in a …
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The paper presents a framework to integrate liquidity and solvency stress tests. An empirical study based on European … bond trading data finds that asset sales haircuts depend on the total amount of assets sold and general liquidity … conditions in the market. To account for variations in market liquidity, the study uses Markov regime-switching models and links …
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This paper evaluates ways to protect highly dollarized banking systems from systemic liquidity runs (such as the ones … the use of limited dollar liquidity to ensure the convertibility of transactional deposits with a mechanism that … automatically limits the convertibility of dollar term deposits once triggered by a predetermined decline in banks'' liquidity …
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We analyze the implications of linking the compensation of fund managers to the return of their portfolio relative to that of a benchmark-a common solution to the agency problem in delegated portfolio management. In the presence of such relativeperformance- based objectives, investors have...
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Do portfolio shifts by the world's largest asset owners respond procyclically to past returns, or countercyclically to valuations? And if countercyclical investment (with both market-stabilizing and return-generating properties) is a public and private good, how might asset owners be empowered...
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While global uncertainty-measured by the VIX-has proven to be a robust global 'push' factor of international capital flows, there has been no systematic study assessing the role of country-specific uncertainty as a key (pull and push) factor of international capital flows. This paper tries to...
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