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What explains global exchange rate movements during the financial crisis?

Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2009

A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...

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Spillovers from Euro Area and U.S. Credit and Demand Shocks: Comparing Emerging Europe on the Basis of a GVAR Model

Fadejeva, Ludmila; Feldkircher, Martin; Reininger, Thomas - 2015

and the U.S.A. For that purpose, we use a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model and isolate disturbances stemming from … shocks in the euro area and in the U.S.A. Last, historical decompositions of deviations from trend growth show that for the … euro area developments, foreign shocks originating in the U.S.A., the UK and the CESEE and CIS regions feature most …

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Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve

Du, Wenxin; Hébert, Benjamin; Li, Wenhao - 2022

We have documented a regime change in the U.S. Treasury market post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We first derived bounds on Treasury yields that account for dealer balance sheet costs, which we call the net short and net long curves. We show that actual Treasury yields moved from the net short...

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Where next for monetary policy? Lessons from the financial crisis and the pandemic

Minford, Patrick - 2023

Monetary developments of recent decades began with much promise with inflation targeting by independent central banks; the financial crisis of 2007 ushered in a period of great monetary instability. There are lessons for a return to more stability. Central banks need to stabilize money supply...

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Applications or approvals: What drives racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program?

Chernenko, Sergey; Kaplan, Nathan; Sarkar, Asani; … - 2023

We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely than observably similar white-owned firms to receive PPP loans. About 55 percent of this take-up...

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From convoy to parting ways? Post-crisis divergence between European and US macroeconomic policies

Pisani-Ferry, Jean; Posen, Adam S. - 2011

The response in 2008-09 to the global financial crisis was in many ways a high water mark for transatlantic policy coordination. The major economies of the EU and the US rapidly agreed on a series of measures to limit the crisis. However, the common approach has since unraveled. This paper...

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Origins and Resolution of Financial Crises; Lessons from the Current and Northern European Crises

Ostrup, Finn; Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - 2009

Since July 2007 the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis originating in the U.S. housing market. The crisis has subsequently spread to the financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises...

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The Current Global Financial Turmoil and Asian Developing Countries

Akyuz, Yilmaz - 2008

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From Marx to Morgan Stanley: Inequality and financial crisis

Mah-Hui, Michael Lim; Khor, Hoe Ee - 2010

Despite robust growth, rising inequality is widespread in many countries. At the same time financial instability and crises are occurring with greater frequency and severity. These two phenomena are related to the contest for a greater share of economic output between labor and capital, with...

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Structural and cyclical forces in the labor market during the great recession: Cross-country evidence

Sala, Luca; Söderström, Ulf; Trigari, Antonella - 2012

We use an estimated monetary business cycle model with search and matching frictions in the labor market and nominal price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and the Great Recession. We estimate the model over the...

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