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cycles with the U.S. during the recent 2007-2009 crisis. We then interpret these findings using a simple general equilibrium … between integration and synchronization depends on the type of shocks hitting the world economy, and that shocks to global … banks played an important role in triggering and spreading the 2007-2009 crisis …
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While the 2008-2009 financial crisis originated in the United States, we witnessed steep declines in output, consumption and investment of similar magnitudes around the globe. This raises two questions. First, given the observed strong home bias in goods and financial markets, what can account...
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing...
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to providing new insights on contagion during crisis periods, we document patterns through time in world and regional …
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The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...
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new proxy for innovations in perceived changes in sovereign risk based upon Google-search data. We find robust evidence …
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finds that common shocks - key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk - have exerted a large effect …, country risk and the strength of domestic macroeconomic fundamentals. Comparing and quantifying these effects shows that …
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allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We … second-best world, financial integration can increase the welfare benefits of liquidity requirements … show under which conditions financial integration induces banks to reduce their liquidity holdings and to shift their …
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This paper considers the meaning of domestic and international systemic risk. It examines scenarios that have been … adduced as creating systemic risk both within countries and among them. It distinguishes between the concepts of real and … pseudo-systemic risk. We examine the history of episodes commonly viewed either as financial crises or as evidencing systemic …
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the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …
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