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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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The current account and monetary policy in the euro area
Schuler, Tobias; Sun, Yiqiao - 2022
account and interest rate. Examining the VAR impulse responses for Germany, Italy and Spain we find that investment shocks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329445
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The Resilience of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) Countries During ECB's Monetary Cycles
Aizenman, Joshua; Saadaoui, Jamel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
variables for financial development, central bank independence, and the inflation rate preceding the cycles. These findings may …
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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794175
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457998
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
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Excess Savings and Twin Deficits : The Transmission of Fiscal Stimulus in Open Economies
Aggarwal, Rishabh; Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth everywhere. In the short run, a country with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334403
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Leaning against the global financial cycle
Ferrero, Andrea; Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio; … - 2022
We study the role and the interaction of the quality of institutions and of counter-cyclical policies in leaning against the Global Financial Cycle (GFC) in Emerging Economies (EMEs). We show that heteroegeneity in institutional strength is a key determinant of the different effects of the GFC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013488632
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The Performance of Emerging Markets During The Fed's Easing and Tightening Cycles : A Cross-Country Resilience Analysis
Aizenman, Joshua; Park, Donghyun; Aleem, Irfan; Uddin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We investigate the determinants of emerging markets performance during five U.S. Federal Reserve monetary tightening and easing cycles during 2004-2023. We study how macroeconomic and institutional conditions of an Emerging Market (EM) at the beginning of a cycle explain EM resilience during...
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