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The 'Other' Imbalance and the Financial Crisis

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …

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On the Global Impact of Risk-off Shocks and Policy-put Frameworks

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2019

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may trigger severe recessions. Policy responses were more complex for developed economies with very low interest rates after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We document, however,...

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The Global Impact of Risk-Off Shocks

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2019

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilising for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may trigger severe recessions. In Caballero and Kamber (2019), we document that the unconventional policies adopted by the main central banks were effective in containing asset price...

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Stock Market Interventions : 'An Update'

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2022

This note argues that stock market intervention during severe liquidity crises should be as broadly accepted as interest rate manipulation, provided that it is conducted in an orderly and transparent fashion. The same applies to asset support more generally, including corporate bonds and...

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Carry Trade and Systemic Risk : Why are FX Options So Cheap?

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2012

In this paper we document first that, in contrast with their widely perceived excess returns, popular carry trade strategies yield low systemic-risk-adjusted returns. In particular, we show that carry trade returns are highly correlated with the return of a VIX rolldown strategy — i.e., the...

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Central Banks, Stock Markets, and the Real Economy

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Simsek, Alp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This article summarizes empirical research on the interaction between monetary policy and asset markets, and reviews our previous theoretical work that captures these interactions. We present a concise model in which monetary policy impacts the aggregate asset price, which in turn influences...

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