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While the 2008-2009 financial crisis originated in the United States, we witnessed steep declines in output, consumption and investment of similar magnitudes around the globe. This raises two questions. First, given the observed strong home bias in goods and financial markets, what can account...
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primary contagion driver, rather than the trade channel. Given the substantial degree of financial contagion, I run a series … similarly severe contagion in the future, so long as there is not capital immobility to the degree that the local sovereign can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975657
While the 2008-2009 fi nancial crisis originated in the United States, we witnessed steep declines in output, consumption and investment of similar magnitudes around the globe. This raises two questions. First, given the observed strong home bias in goods and fi nancial markets, what can account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751195
primary contagion driver, rather than the trade channel. Given the substantial degree of financial contagion, I run a series … similarly severe contagion in the future, so long as there is not capital immobility to the degree that the local sovereign can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968486
through them. The results suggest credit disruption as the primary contagion driver, rather than the trade channel. Given this … substantial degree of financial contagion, I run a series of counterfactuals studying the efficacy of capital controls and find … that they would be a useful tool for preventing similarly severe contagion in the future, as long as there is not capital …
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primary contagion driver, rather than the trade channel. Given the substantial degree of financial contagion, I run a series … similarly severe contagion in the future, so long as there is not capital immobility to the degree that the local sovereign can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248855
The collapse of international trade surrounding the Great Recession has garnered significant attention. This paper studies firm entry and exit in foreign markets and their role in the post-recession recovery of U.S. exports using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau. We find that...
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This paper proposes a large-scale Bayesian vector autoregression with factor stochastic volatility to investigate the macroeconomic consequences of international uncertainty shocks in G7 countries. The curse of dimensionality is addressed by means of a global-local shrinkage prior that mimics...
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We show that a model with imperfectly forecastable changes in future productivity and an occasionally binding collateral constraint can match a set of stylized facts about "sudden stop" events. "Good" news about future productivity raises leverage during times of expansion, increasing the...
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We show that a model with imperfectly forecastable changes in future productivity and an occasionally binding collateral constraint can match a set of stylized facts about “sudden stop” events. “Good” news about future productivity raises leverage during times of expansion, increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014942