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What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk

Aizenman, Joshua - 2011

We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …

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Fiscal Stimulus and Commercial Bank Lending Under COVID-19

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Spiegel, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the implications of extra-normal government spending under the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial bank lending growth between 2019Q4 and 2020Q4 in a large sample of over 3000 banks from 71 countries. We control for pre-pandemic structural factors, bank characteristics and government...

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Limiting Currency Volatility to Stimulate Goods Market Integration : A Price Based Approach

Parsley, David C. - 2001

of a 3-dimensional panel of prices of 95 very disaggregated goods (e.g., light bulbs) in 83 cities from around the world …

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Negative Alchemy? Corruption, Composition of Capital Flows, and Currency Crises

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2001

Crony capitalism and self-fulfilling expectations by international creditors are often suggested as two rival explanations for currency crisis. This paper examines a possible linkage between the two that has not been explored much in the literature: corruption may affect a country's composition...

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Natural Openness and Good Government

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2000

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption and bad governance drive out international trade and investment more than domestic trade and investment, a naturally more open economy' as determined by its size and geography...

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How Taxing is Corruption on International Investors?

Wei, Shang-Jin - 1997

nor Japanese investors treat corruption in East Asia any differently from that in other parts of the world. There are …

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Regional Trading Arrangement : Natural or Super-Natural?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1996

lower than under the MFN status quo. Estimates from the gravity model suggest the world system may already be in the super …

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Open Regionalism in a World of Continental Trade Blocs

Wei, Shang-Jin - 1995

Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …

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Anticipations of Foreign Exchange Volatility and Bid-Ask Spreads

Wei, Shang-Jin - 1994

The paper studies the effect of the market's perceived exchange rate volatility on bid-ask spreads. The anticipated volatility is extracted from currency options data. An increase in the perceived volatility is found to widen bid-ask spreads. The direction of the effect is consistent with an...

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International Equity and Debt Flows : Composition, Crisis, and Controls

Ma, Chang - 2020

We propose a theory of endogenous composition of capital flows that highlights two asymmetries between international equity and debt financing. In our model, poor institutional quality leads to an inefficiently low share of equity financing as well as an inefficiently high volume of total...

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