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To measure contagion empirically, we propose using a Bayesian time-varying coefficient model estimated with Markov ChainMonte Carlo methods. The proposed measure works in the joint presence of heteroskedasticity and omitted variables and does not require knowledge of the timing of the crisis. It...
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This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...
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-determined by a risk factor imperfectly correlated to other priced risks in the economy. The significance of this factor can be … model is put in the state space form. The unobserved variables span the macroeconomic risk factors with an impact on the … comparison of models allowing for an independent OF risk factor with a restricted one, where the forex order flow plays no role …
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The behaviour of the exchange rate under a floating exchange rate regime for a small open economy with perfect capital mobility may appear like a managed float or even a firmer peg. We present a canonical new neo-classical synthesis open economy model where the central bank follows a strategy...
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effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset … the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated … transmission pattern, questioning the presumption that terms-of-trade movements foster international risk-pooling. …
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The paper extends the standard intertemporal model of the current account to include two important stylised facts: (1) the persistence of current account positions and (2) the relevance of the fiscal balance. Specifically, the paper derives a closed form solution for consumption in the presence...
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of risky assets among countries are determined endogenously. The risk-free rate is exogenous, so our model is an … exchange rate for parameters such as income on net foreign assets, risk-aversion and risk-hedging opportunities. …
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This paper reviews three different concepts of equilibrium exchange rates that are widely used in policy analysis and constitute the backbone of the IMF CGER assessment: the Macroeconomic Balance, the External Sustainability and the reduced form approaches. We raise a number of econometric...
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, short-term speculative flows and risk reversals on currency options prices exhibit consistent contemporaneous indicator …
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Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...
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