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Recently portfolio choice has become an important element of many DSGE open economy models. Yet, a substantial body of evidence is inconsistent with standard frictionless portfolio choice models. In this paper we introduce a quadratic cost of changes in portfolio allocation into a two-country...
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We examine international equity allocations at the fund level and show how different returns on the foreign and domestic proportion of portfolios determine rebalancing behavior and trigger capital flows. We document the heterogeneity of rebalancing across fund types, its greater intensity under...
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We provide a model-free framework to study the global factor structure of exchange rates. To this end, we propose a new methodology to estimate international stochastic discount factors (SDFs) that jointly price cross-sections of international assets, such as stocks, bonds, and currencies, in...
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We investigate how the interaction of the Brexit and COVID waves of the Bank of England’s quantitative easing with the leverage ratio capital requirements or government COVID lending support schemes affected bank business lending. We find that the former QE programme was particularly...
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We investigate the impact of the Bank of England's asset purchase program (APP) on the composition of assets of UK banks, and the implications for the real economy, using a unique database on the program. Knowing the identity of the banks that receive reserves injections through APP (QE banks)...
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We develop a general equilibrium model with intermediaries at the heart of international financial markets. Global intermediaries bargain with households and extract rents for providing access to foreign claims. The behavior of intermediaries, by tilting state prices, breaks monetary neutrality...
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We propose a "debt view" to explain the dominant international role of the dollar and provide broad empirical support … suggest that the dollar fits this description better than all major currencies, especially for longer horizons. The debt view … can jointly explain the fall and the rise of the dollar in international debt markets over the last two decades …
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