This paper presents empirical evidence supporting the view that US monetary conditions matter for firms in the global capital market. We show the effects of three risk measures, domestic bank interest rates spreads, US bank interest rates spread, and US market price of interest rate risk on the...

I present a dynamic general equilibrium monetary model with domestic and foreign currencies and a traded bond where there is an adjustment cost to switch into foreign currency. The focus is on the short versus long run trade-offs and transitional dynamics of domestic and foreign monetary...