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Some euro area countries accumulated large and persistent external imbalances during the upswing, revealing important weaknesses in the macroeconomic management of the monetary union. Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain ran large current account deficits by historical standards, while Finland,...
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We construct a new database of bilateral financial flows among euro area countries and their major world partners and explore the role of financial links in the accumulation and then adjustment of current account imbalances in the euro area. The data show that the geography of financial flows...
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been significant changes in saving and investment patterns across the world and imbalances have narrowed considerably. Does …
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between the bond market and the domestic markets for capital investment, the symmetric steady state may become unstable and …
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countries of southern eurozone. The twin deficit hypothesis is tested within the context of a portfolio model involving … southern eurozone coun-tries that affects their Current Account balances, but also the fiscal policy of the eurozone surplus … countries of the north. Interdependence of euro-zone countries suggests that fiscal policy can be used for the elimination of …
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This paper looks at the empirical determinates of foreign currency reserve holdings across a panel of around 130 countries between 1980 and 2008. The paper builds on the existing literature by adopting a panel error-correction model specification and by extending the sample to include the recent...
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monetary union. Using Bayesian techniques, we estimate a two-country DSGE model that distinguishes between Eurozone core and … sensitive to financial shocks while investment and current account imbalances are more sensitive to financial shocks. Finally, a …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of cross-border asset holdings on cross-country data and a Swedish data set. We focus our analysis on the effect of the euro not only for the determinants of bond holdings, but also of equity and banking assets. With the help of a simple theoretical model, we...
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of return on U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) assets than on U.S. FDI liabilities, ongoing borrowing is likely to … true U.S. net investment position close to balance. We argue that intangible capital, while a relevant dimension of …
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This paper presents a portfolio model of financial intermediation in which currency choice is determined by hedging decisions on both sides of a bank`s balance sheet. Minimum variance portfolio (MVP) allocations are found to provide a natural benchmark to estimate the scope for dollarization of...
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