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I show that monetary policy divergence vis-a-vis the U.S. has larger spillover effects in emerging markets than advanced economies. The monetary policy of the U.S. affects domestic credit costs in other countries through its effect on global investors' risk perceptions. Capital flows in and out...
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This paper studies the synchronization of financial cycles across 17 advanced economies over the past 150 years. The comovement in credit, house prices, and equity prices has reached historical highs in the past three decades. The sharp increase in the comovement of global equity markets is...
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US government bonds are widely considered to be the world's safe store of value. US government bonds are a large … fraction of safe asset portfolios, such as the porfolios of many central banks. The world demand for safe assets leads to low …
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We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input … total job losses of 2.0 million. It follows that the expansion in U.S. merchandise exports to the world relative to imports …
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the rest of the world rather than focusing on issues with U.S. monetary and fiscal policies. In addition, at the urging of …
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Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may trigger severe recessions. Policy responses were more complex for developed economies with very low interest rates after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We document, however,...
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character of foreign direct investment by American multinational firms. Indirect tax burdens significantly exceed foreign income … to be partly attributable to the inability of American investors to claim foreign tax credits for indirect tax payments …. Estimates imply that 10 percent higher indirect tax rates are associated with 9.2 percent lower reported income of American …
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We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative...
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This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial conditions on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we establish that financial development in a country is associated with relatively more entry by multinational affiliates, as well as with higher...
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We characterize how U.S. global systemically important banks (GSIBs) supply short-term dollar liquidity in repo and foreign exchange swap markets in the post-Global Financial Crisis regulatory environment and serve as the "lenders-of-second-to-last-resort". Using daily supervisory bank balance...
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