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We use a series of different approaches to extract information about crash risk from option prices for the Euro …-Dollar exchange rate, with each step sharpening the focus on extracting more specific measures of crash risk around dates of ECB … without precisely describing what exactly they entail does not move asset markets or actually increases crash risk. Also …
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is driven primarily by idiosyncratic country risk. We analyze several local and regional channels that may explain the … trading in sovereign CDS: (a) country-specific credit risk shocks, including changes in a country's credit rating and related …
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Many commentators have argued that if the Federal Reserve had followed a stricter monetary policy earlier this decade when the housing bubble was forming, and if Congress had not deregulated banking but had imposed tighter financial standards, the housing boom and bust - and the subsequent...
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We show that the slight possibility of a macroeconomic disaster of moderate magnitude can explain important features across credit, option, and equity markets. Our consumption-based equilibrium model captures the empirical level and volatility of credit spreads, generates a flexible credit term...
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This paper develops and implements an equilibrium model of systemic risk. The model derives a systemic risk measure …
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We study the nature of systemic sovereign credit risk using CDS spreads for the U.S. Treasury, individual U.S. states … systemic risk. U.S. and Euro systemic shocks are highly correlated, but there is much less systemic risk among U.S. sovereigns … than among European sovereigns. We also find that U.S. and European systemic sovereign risk is strongly related to …
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In this paper, we study the interplay between sovereign risk and global financial risk. We show that a substantial … portion of the comovement among sovereign spreads is accounted for by changes in global financial risk. We construct bond … measure global financial risk. Through panel regressions and local projection analysis, we find that an increase in global …
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In this paper, we study the interplay between sovereign risk and global financial risk. We show that a substantial … portion of the comovement among sovereign spreads is accounted for by changes in global financial risk. We construct bond … measure global financial risk. Through panel regressions and local projection analysis, we find that an increase in global …
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than out-of-the-money calls, suggesting a large crash risk of those currencies. To evaluate crash risk precisely, we …, forward, and option data, we obtain a real-time index of the compensation for global disaster risk exposure. We find that … disaster risk accounts for more than a third of the carry trade risk premium in advanced countries over the period examined …
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In this paper, we study the interplay between sovereign risk and global financial risk. We show that a substantial … portion of the comovement among sovereign spreads is accounted for by changes in global financial risk. We construct bond … measure global financial risk. Through panel regressions and local projection analysis, we find that an increase in global …
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