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The paper investigates the international integration of EM sovereign dollar-denominated and local-currency bond markets. Factor analysis is used to examine movements in sovereign bond yields and common sources of yield variation. The results suggest that EM dollar-denominated sovereign debt...
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This paper considers the problem of jointly decomposing a set of time series variables into cyclical and trend components, subject to sets of stochastic linear restrictions among these cyclical and trend components. We derive a closed form solution to an ordinary problem featuring homogeneous...
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, but find that the effect is small after controlling for the risks of dilution and default. Brazil provides a natural case … explain the high interest rate levels in the aftermath of Brazil''s 1994 inflation stabilization. However, since the adoption … in 1999 of inflation targeting and floating exchange rates, Brazil''s real interest rates are gradually converging to the …
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This paper estimates the effectiveness of capital controls in response to inflow surges in Brazil, Colombia, Korea, and …
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of fiscal policy on the other. Applications to Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey are used to illustrate …
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for Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey reveal such responses, both contemporaneously and over time. Capital account shocks are …
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the inputs that are required to calculate such spreads. This note provides some evidence from Argentina and Brazil that … reveals inconsistency between theory and practice in pricing CDS spreads in EM. This note suggests an alternate methodology …
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Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been challenging in many countries. This study includes two parts: an empirical analysis of macroeconomic risks associated with infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging...
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We estimate a latent factor model that decomposes international stock returns into global, country-, and industry-specific shocks and allows for stock-specific exposures to these shocks. We find that across stocks there is substantial dispersion in these exposures, which is partly explained by...
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