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We study financial fragility, exchange rate crises, and monetary policy in an open economy version of a Diamond-Dybvig model. The banking system, the exchange rate regime, and central bank credit policy are seen as parts of a mechanism intended to maximize social welfare; if the mechanism fails,...
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The decentralized enterprise that sustains the dynamism of economies makes top-down monetary interventions, such as quantitative easing, that target aggregates such as overall inflation, futile. Moreover, economic stability and dynamism also require prudent, decentralized lending to...
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A key challenge for macroeconomic policy in open economies is how to simultaneously manage exchange rates, interest rates and capital account openness - the trilemma. This paper calculates a trilemma index for India and investigates its evolution over time. We find that financial integration has...
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A key challenge facing most emerging market economies today is how to simultaneously maintain monetary independence, exchange rate stability and financial integration subject to the constraints imposed by the Trilemma, in the era of deepening globalization. In this paper we study the Trilemma...
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A key challenge for macroeconomic policy in open economies is how to simultaneously manage exchange rates, interest rates and capital account openness - the trilemma. This paper calculates a trilemma index for India and investigates its evolution over time. We find that financial integration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698332
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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crisis, with a year-over-year contraction of 15 percent during the first quarter of 2009. At the same time, anticipating the … fallout from the crisis, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) decreased policy rates by an astounding 1025 basis … the recent recession have been? Taking the most intense year of the crisis as our baseline, namely 2009, counterfactual …
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The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It … identification. The paper finds that euro area government bond markets were well integrated prior to the crisis, but saw a … substantialfragmentation from 2010 onward. Flight to quality was present at the height of the crisis, but has largely dissipated after the …
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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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No one seems to be neutral about the effects of EMU on the German economy. Roughly speaking, there are two camps: those who see the euro as the advent of a newly open, large, and efficient regime which will lead to improvements in European and in particular in German competitiveness; those who...
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