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international equity transactions that accentuate the role of international risk sharing as a factor for the macroeconomic response … shock affecting only one country. Efficient global risk-sharing imply that expected productivity gains in one country will … for the productivity gains can further increase the risk exposure of foreign shareholders. The model is calibrated to show …
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This chapter is structured in three parts. The first part outlines the methodological steps, involving both theoretical and empirical work, for assessing whether an observed allocation of resources across countries is efficient. The second part applies the methodology to the long-run allocation...
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The globalization of capital and product markets has many implications for economic welfare. Countries can specialize in the production of goods for which they have comparative advantages, and capital is allocated more efficiently. However, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the...
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The G7 countries traditionally display home bias in assets (equities and bonds), but over the last 25 years this bias has progressively decreased, especially for equity portfolios. At the same time, the indebtedness of non-financial corporations has tended to increase and comove across...
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The U.S. could be the source of the global financial risk because it longs risky assets and shorts safe assets in the … international capital market. This paper builds a stylized two-country model to highlight that when the developed country's risk …-bearing capacity improves, it holds more foreign risky assets and issue more risk-free debt. The foreign country's risk …
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liability side, allowing investors sell domestic and foreign bonds and capturing changes in counterparty risk in a stylized way … prices are mainly affected by financiers' concern for counterparty risk: impact effects are deep and in line with the terms … cumulative effects have instead more mixed results on fluctuations. -- borrowing limits ; counterparty risk ; financial flows …
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experiencing a favourable supply side shock consumes more against expected future output and spreads the risk by selling shares …
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Europe experienced substantial cross-country variation in domestic credit growth and cross border capital flows during the pre-crisis period. We investigate the inter-relations between domestic credit growth and international capital flows over 1993-2008, with a special focus on the 2003-2008...
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