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The global financial crisis has demonstrated that a financially open economy has many areas of vulnerability. Even when a country keeps its own house in order, it remains at the mercy of developments in external financial markets. So, one lesson to bear in mind is that policymakers need to guard...
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There exists near-consensus among professional economists on the desirability of achieving macroeconomic stabilization prior to the removal of microeconomic distortions. Yet this advice was completely disregarded in some of the most important cases of reform during the last decade--Bolivia and...
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To the extent that they exert a critical influence on the macroeconomic environment, monetary and exchange rate policies (MERP) are relevant for development. However, the analytical economic literature often sees nominal variables as being irrelevant for the real economy, while the multiplicity...
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We study two-period pure-exchange Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) economies with incomplete financial markets and restricted participation. We characterize the optimal financial-market structure and the efficient innovations consisting of both the introduction of new assets and the...
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' short-term debt exposures. Consistent with moral hazard in the form of risk-taking by large, under-capitalized banks to … exploit government guarantees, arbitrage regulatory risk weights, and access central-bank funding, we find that this carry …-trade behavior is stronger for large banks, and banks with low Tier 1 ratios and high risk-weighted assets, in both GIPSI and non …
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case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due … to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on individual institution risk rather than systemic risk; opacity of …
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case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due … to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on individual institution risk rather than systemic risk; opacity of …
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case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due … to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on individual institution risk rather than systemic risk; opacity of …
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find support for risk-shifting and regulatory arbitrage motives at banks in that carry trade behavior is stronger for large … banks and banks with low capital ratios and high risk-weighted assets. We also find evidence for home bias and moral suasion …
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capitalized. We employ a set of headline facts about the build-up of such risk exposures to explain how and why LCFIs adopted this … in decades preceding the current one, allowing LCFIs to take on excessive systemic risk. We also examine alternative … banking, excess liquidity due to global imbalances and mispricing of risk due to behavioral biases have some merit as …
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