This paper analyzes why the global financial crisis in 2008 severely affected Asia's trade. Asia has been suffering … from the falls in export demand from developed countries. However the abrupt trade declines in Asia are not fully explained … developing economies and show different results for different countries in Asia. We employ a Markov-Switching FAVAR (Factor …

on to explore the continuing globalization of financial markets, including further innovations in information …

across countries through risk variables, spurring a literature on the "global financial cycle." This paper studies how … (conventional and unconventional) monetary policy shocks affect risk and uncertainty in three large economies: the US, euro area …, and Japan. We construct measures of financial risk factors for each country by decomposing option-implied variances of the …