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international equity transactions that accentuate the role of international risk sharing as a factor for the macroeconomic response … shock affecting only one country. Efficient global risk-sharing imply that expected productivity gains in one country will … for the productivity gains can further increase the risk exposure of foreign shareholders. The model is calibrated to show …
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This chapter is structured in three parts. The first part outlines the methodological steps, involving both theoretical and empirical work, for assessing whether an observed allocation of resources across countries is efficient. The second part applies the methodology to the long-run allocation...
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This paper examines stock market volatility measured by either “beta-volatility” or by the standard deviation of stock returns over 1995-2007. In our dynamic panel data framework, after controlling for size, turnover, and real output growth, we find some support to increases in financial...
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The U.S. could be the source of the global financial risk because it longs risky assets and shorts safe assets in the … international capital market. This paper builds a stylized two-country model to highlight that when the developed country's risk …-bearing capacity improves, it holds more foreign risky assets and issue more risk-free debt. The foreign country's risk …
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We study international business cycles and capital flows in the UK, the United States and the Emerging Periphery in the period 1885-1939. Based on the same set of parameters, our model explains current account dynamics under both the Classical Gold Standard and during the Interwar period. We...
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The corporate basis measures the pricing difference between dollar and foreign currency bonds issued by the same corporate entity. In this paper, we decompose the basis into a risky asset yield spread, a safe asset convenience yield, and FX hedging costs with the covered interest rate parity...
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In dynamic equilibrium trade models, the common assumption that asset markets are complete implies that correlations of consumption across countries should be quite high. In contrast, measured consumption correlations tend to be rather low. While some suggest this implies that asset market...
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