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This paper investigates the output effects of IMF-supported stabilization programs, especially those introduced at the time of a severe balance of payments/currency crisis. Using a panel data set over the 1975-97 period and covering 67 developing and emerging-market economies (with 461 IMF...
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. I find that after the shock international banks reduce bank-to-bank lending to Peruvian banks and Peruvian banks reduce … lending to Peruvian firms. The effect is strongest for domestically-owned banks that borrow internationally, intermediate for … several banks. These results suggest that bank-to-bank lending establishes an international transmission channel for liquidity …
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We investigate the output effects of severe currency crises in emerging markets. Using a panel data set over the 1975-97 period and covering 24 emerging-market economies, we find that currency and balance of payments crises?even after controlling for other factors?reduce output by about 5-8...
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This paper investigates the output effects of IMF-supported stabilization programs, especially those introduced at the time of a severe balance of payments/currency crisis. Using a panel data set over the 1975-97 period and covering 67 developing and emerging-market economies (with 461 IMF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123757
This paper considers policies of the industrialized countries, as they pertain to crises in emerging markets. These fall into three areas: (1) their own macroeconomic policies, which determine the global financial environment; (2) their role in responding to crises when they occur, particularly...
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This paper considers spatial linkages of bilateral trade, financial correlation, and bilateral distance to study the macroeconomic determinants of sovereign risk for frontier markets. Furthermore, to evaluate the extent to which countries' economic and geographical relations affect their credit...
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This paper explains why domestic debt composition in emerging economies is risky. It carries out an analysis of the … domestic debt composition, which encompasses maturity mismatches, rollover risk and interest payment contingency. The paper … inflation is lofty, the debt service-to-GDP ratio high, the slope of the yield curve inverted and the investor base narrow …
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, foreign currency-denominated lending). But are all inflows the same? In this paper, we examine whether the source of the … investment, portfolio debt and other investment flows are associated with larger macroeconomic imbalances and financial …
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