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. - Financial development ; Growth ; Volatility ; Diversification ; Mean-variance effciency …We study how financial market effciency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors … and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct a benchmark measure of diversification as the set of allocations of …
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We study how financial market efficiency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors … and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct a benchmark measure of diversification as the set of allocations of … aggregate output across industrial sectors which minimize the economy’s long-term volatility for a given level of long …
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We study how monetary policy and risk shocks affect asset prices in the US, the euro area, and Japan, differentiating between "traditional" monetary policy and communication events, each decomposed into "pure" and information shocks. Communication shocks from the US spill over to risk in the...
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that become more integrated over time have less synchronized growth patterns, conditional on global shocks and country …
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To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks...
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We explore a view of the crisis as a shock to investor sentiment that led to the collapse of a bubble or pyramid scheme in financial markets. We embed this view in a standard model of the financial accelerator and explore its empirical and policy implications. In particular, we show how the...
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financial tensions and asset price volatility. We study the interactions of behavioral and financial frictions in an environment …
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pecuniary externality generates large reductions in the volatility of real estate prices and credit. Therefore, policies that …
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In this paper we assess the merits of financial condition indices constructed using simple averages versus a more sophisticated alternative that uses factor models with time varying parameters. Our analysis is based on data for 18 advanced and emerging economies at a monthly frequency covering...
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, entries in the credit market by new obligors ("inflows") account for the bulk of volatility in the net creation of borrowers …. Second, the volatility of borrower in ows is two times as large as the volatility of obligors exiting from the credit market …
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