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Asset class diversification and delegation of responsibilities between central banks and sovereign wealth funds
Aizenman, Joshua; Glick, Reuven - 2010
This paper presents a model comparing the optimal degree of asset class diversification abroad by a central bank and a sovereign wealth fund. We show that if the central bank manages its foreign asset holdings in order to meet balance of payments needs, particularly in reducing the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333067
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Asset class diversification and delegation of responsibilities between central banks and sovereign wealth funds
Aizenman, Joshua; Glick, Reuven - 2010
This paper presents a model comparing the optimal degree of asset class diversification abroad by a central bank and a sovereign wealth fund. We show that if the central bank manages its foreign asset holdings in order to meet balance of payments needs, particularly in reducing the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287783
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Why do borrowers pledge collateral? New empirical evidence on the role of asymmetric information
Berger, Allen N.; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A.; Frame, W. Scott - 2007
An important theoretical literature motivates collateral as a mechanism that mitigates adverse selection, credit … incidence of collateral. We exploit exogenous variation in lender information related to the adoption of an information … technology that reduces ex ante private information, and compare collateral outcomes before and after adoption. Our results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292292
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Tests of ex ante versus ex post theories of collateral using private and public information
Berger, Allen N.; Frame, W. Scott; Ioannidou, Vasso - 2010
Collateral is a widely used, but not well understood, debt-contracting feature. Two broad strands of theoretical … literature explain collateral as arising from the existence of either ex ante private information or ex post incentive problems … ex post theories of collateral are empirically dominant although the ex ante theories are also valid for customers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292349
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Debt portfolios
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2009
We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by durables whereas unsecured debt can be discharged in bankruptcy procedures. We show that the model matches the main quantitative characteristics of observed wealth and debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280743
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Large hoarding of international reserves and the emerging global economic architecture
Aizenman, Joshua - 2007
This paper analyzes competing interpretations for the large increases in the hoarding of international reserves by developing countries. While the first phase of the rapid hoarding of reserves in the aftermath of the East Asian crisis has been dominated by self insurance against exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285334
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Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Rate and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina's Lessons
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Talvi, Ernesto; Calvo, Guillermo A. - 2003
We offer an alternative explanation for t he fall of Argentina's Convertibility Program based on the country's vulnerability to Sudden Stops in capital flows. Sudden Stops are typically accompanied by a substantial increase in the real exchange rate that wreaks havoc in countries that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327123
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China in the global economy
Sen, Sunanda - 2010
China occupies a unique position among developing countries. Its success in achieving relative stability in the financial sector since the institution of reforms in 1979 has given way to relative instability since the beginning of the current global financial crisis. Over the last few years,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286512
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Market-Based loss mitigation practices for troubled mortgages following the financial crisis
Agarwal, Sumit; Amromin, Gene; Ben-David, Itzhak; … - 2010
The meltdown in residential real-estate prices that commenced in 2006 resulted in unprecedented mortgage delinquency rates. Until mid-2009, lenders and servicers pursued their own individual loss mitigation practices without being significantly influenced by government intervention. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292190
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Equity capital, bankruptcy risk and the liquidity trap
Levintal, Oren - 2011
This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335985