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In this paper, we develop a financial stress index for France that can be used as a real-time composite indicator for the state of financial stability in France. We take 17 financial variables from different market segments and extract a common stress component using a dynamic approximate factor...
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This paper addresses the question of whether and how easy monetary policy may lead to excesses in financial and real asset markets and ultimately result in financial dislocation. It presents evidence suggesting that periods when short-term interest rates have been persistently and significantly...
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periods of financial deregulation and/or innovation. Finding also some support for a link of countries' pre-crisis monetary … stance with the extent to which their financial sectors were hit during the recent crisis, the paper argues that …) unwinding of which helped trigger the recent financial market crisis. -- Interest rates ; monetary policy ; housing ; sub …
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This paper analyzes the impact of large-scale, unconventional asset purchases by advanced country central banks on emerging market economies (EMEs) during 2008–2014. I show that there was substantial heterogeneity in the way EME currency, equity, and long-term sovereign bond markets were...
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This paper addresses the question of whether and how monetary policy ease may lead to excesses in financial and real asset markets and ultimately result in financial dislocation. It presents evidence suggesting that periods when short-term interest rates have been persistently and significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445746
With traditional domestic imbalances long under control, the Chilean business cycle is driven by external shocks. Most importantly, Chile's external vulnerability is primarily a financial problem. A decline in the Chilean terms-of-trade, for example, is associated to a decline in real GDP that...
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Based on a sample of 87 countries, this paper shows that non-financial institutions, specifically rule of law, do matter for the relative merits of bank-based and market-based financial systems. Market-based systems work better in low rule of law countries, while bank-based systems are more...
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The issues in today's crisis – and indeed in the most important crises, historically – can best be understood as a …
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Given the importance of financial intermediation and the rise of globalization, there is little prior research on how national preferences for financial intermediation (markets versus institutions) are determined by cultural, legal, and other national characteristics. Using panel analysis for...
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2008 financial crisis as measured by the dramatic shift in net interest income in favor of banks. The paper also concludes …
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