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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459568
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Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment
Bernanke, Ben - 2001
Most empirical analyses of monetary policy have been confined to frameworks in which the Federal Reserve is implicitly assumed to exploit only a limited amount of information, despite the fact that the Fed actively monitors literally thousands of economic time series. This article explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470341
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Estimation of Nonlinear Exchange Rate Dynamics in Evolving Regimes
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Hou, Yao; Xie, Danxia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
regimes. We pay particular attention to the BBC and offer a new approach to parameter estimation by utilizing a three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635607
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Why Have Negative Nominal Interest Rates Had Such a Small Effect on Bank Performance? Cross Country Evidence
Lopez, Jose A. - 2018
We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480657
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CoCo Issuance and Bank Fragility
Avdjiev, Stefan - 2017
first comprehensive empirical analysis of bank CoCo issues, a market segment that comprises over 730 instruments totaling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453715
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Austerity in 2009-2013
Alesina, Alberto - 2015
The conventional wisdom is (i) that fiscal austerity was the main culprit for the recessions experienced by many countries, especially in Europe, since 2010 and (ii) that this round of fiscal consolidation was much more costly than past ones. The contribution of this paper is a clarification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457839
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Liquidity Traps, Prudential Policies, and International Spillovers
Bianchi, Javier; Coulibaly, Louphou - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the transmission channels of monetary and macroprudential policies in an open economy framework and evaluates the normative implications for international spillovers and global welfare. An analytical decomposition uncovers the prominent role of expenditure switching for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210066
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The Rest of the World's Dollar-Weighted Return on U.S. Treasurys
Jiang, Zhengyang; Krishnamurthy, Arvind; Lustig, Hanno - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Since 1980, foreign investors have timed their purchases and sales of U.S. Treasurys to yield particularly low returns. Their annual dollar-weighted returns, measured by IRRs, are around 3% lower than a buy-and-hold strategy over the same horizon. In comparison, the IRRs achieved by domestic...
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On the Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Reserves During the 2021-22 U.S. Monetary Tightening Cycle
Ahmed, Rashad; Aizenman, Joshua; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the role of foreign exchange (FX) reserves and other fundamental factors in explaining cross-country differences in foreign currency depreciation observed over the 2021-22 Federal Reserve monetary policy tightening cycle that led to a sharp appreciation of the US dollar....
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