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financial sector and factors that explain why these strains lead to system-wide contagion and a possible credit crunch. Most of … that a financial crisis with its contagion within the system is caused by failures of legal, regulatory and political … crises would be reduced if appropriate institutions could be put in place Lacking appropriate institutions to avoid contagion …
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tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in …, Italy and Spain became more interdependent after the OMT announcement, providing our only evidence of contagion. While this …
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Structural innovations in multivariate dynamic systems are typically hidden and often identified by means of a-priori economic reasoning. Under multivariate Gaussian model innovations there is no loss measure available to distinguish alternative orderings of variables or, put differently,...
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This paper explores the effects of non-standard monetary policies on international yield relationships. Based on a descriptive analysis of international long-term yields, we find evidence that long-term rates have followed a global downward trend prior to as well as during the financial crisis....
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In the paper we investigate the empirical features of euro area money market turbulence during the recent financial crisis. By means of a novel Fractionally Integrated Heteroskedastic Factor Vector Autoregressive model, we find evidence of a deterministic level factor in the EURIBOR-OIS (OIS)...
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This study investigates whether there is an increased integration of U.S. domestic money market interest rates and the Eurodollar market interest rates following two important changes that the U.S Federal Reserve (the Fed) implemented. First, elimination of reserve requirements on Eurodollar...
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This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...
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This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220137
This paper investigates the PPP and UIP conditions by taking into account possible nonlinearities as well as the role of Taylor rule deviations under alternative monetary policy frameworks. The analysis is conducted using monthly data from January 1993 to December 2020 for five...
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With the aim to provide a detailed understanding of global financial cycles and their relevance over time, we analyse co-movement in credit, house prices, equity prices, and interest rates across 17 advanced economies over 130 years. Using a time-varying dynamic factor model, we observe global...
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