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International Sanctions and Dollar Dominance
Bianchi, Javier; Sosa Padilla, César - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates the implications of international financial sanctions for the reserve currency status of the US dollar. We propose a simple model of a reserve currency, demonstrate how the anticipation of financial sanctions can weaken the dollar's status, and evaluate the welfare...
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Uncertainty Shocks, Capital Flows, and International Risk Spillovers
Akinci, Ozge; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Queralto, Albert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Foreign investors' changing appetite for risk-taking have been shown to be a key determinant of the global financial cycle. Such fluctuations in risk sentiment also correlate with the dynamics of UIP premia, capital flows, and exchange rates. To understand how these risk sentiment changes...
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A Luna-tic Stablecoin Crash
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
After remaining close to 1 US Dollar since its inception in November 2020, the algorithmic stablecoin UST crashed in the two weeks of May 9th to May 15th, 2022, leading to a price collapse of the underlying LUNA token and the erasure of more than 50 Billion U.S. Dollar or 90% in market value
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Non-Fundamental Flows and Foreign Exchange Rates
Aldunate, Felipe E.; Da, Zhi; Larrain, Borja; Sialm, Clemens - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
pressure to currency forward markets and results in violations of the covered interest rate parity. Using trading data and bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477245
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The Importance of Sound Monetary Policy : Some Lessons for Today from Canada's Experience with Floating Exchange Rates Since 1950
Bordo, Michael D.; Siklos, Pierre L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In this paper we revisit the Canadian experience with floating exchange rates since 1950. Canada was a pioneer in successfully adopting a floating exchange rate during the Bretton Woods pegged exchange rate regime. Since then, most advanced countries have followed the Canadian example
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Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity
Bremus, Franziska - 2013
. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then … concentration is associated with a positive and significant relationship between bank-level credit growth and aggregate growth of …
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts
Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014
Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...
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Incentive-Compatible Unemployment Reinsurance for the Euro Area
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Mojon, Benoît; Silva, Luiz … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We model a reinsurance mechanism for the national unemployment insurance programs of euro area member states. The risk-sharing scheme we analyze is designed to smooth country-level unemployment risk and expenditures around each country's median level, so that participation and contributions...
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
estimate only moderate effects on the financial sector: the share of Non Performing Loans on bank balance sheets would increase …
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