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We investigate global factors associated with cross-border capital flows. We formulate a model of gross capital flows through the international banking system and derive a closed form solution that highlights the leverage cycle of global banks as being a prime determinant of the transmission of...
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What is the role for supply and demand forces in determining movements in international banking flows? Answering this question is crucial for understanding the international transmission of financial shocks and formulating policy. This paper addresses the question by using the method developed...
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International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the consequences for economic and financial stability, including the ability of countries to conduct autonomous monetary policy. I address the monetary autonomy issue in the context of...
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over faster than domestic assets because the former have desirable liquidity properties, but represent inferior saving …
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: a greater share will correspond to a more appreciated exchange rate. Second, under uncertainty, liquidity effects …
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instruments used in the sterilization are illiquid or result in fiscal deficits that reduce the liquidity of the private sector … country's international liquidity during the external crisis and reversal, as would be the case with a successful … sterilization, but just a decline in domestic private liquidity. The impact of the latter on relative asset prices creates a sort of …
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liquidity and liability management more generally …
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Both investors and borrowers are concerned about liquidity. Investors desire liquidity because they are uncertain about … when they will want to eliminate their holding of a financial asset. Borrowers are concerned about liquidity because they … compensation for the illiquidity investors will be subject to. We argue that banks can resolve these liquidity problems that arise …
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Default probability plays a central role in the static tradeoff theory of capital structure. We directly test this … theory by regressing the probability of default on proxies for costs and benefits of debt. Contrary to predictions of the … theory, firms with higher bankruptcy costs, i.e., smaller firms and firms with lower asset tangibility, choose capital …
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This paper investigates the relation between a firm's location and its corporate finance decisions. We develop a simple model where being located within an industry cluster increases opportunities to make acquisitions, and to facilitate those acquisitions, firms within clusters maintain more...
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