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We assess the role played by exchange rates in buffering or amplifying the propagation of shocks across international equity markets. Using copula functions we model the joint dependence between exchange rates and two global equity markets and, from a copula framework, we obtain the conditional...
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This paper reviews and assesses financial stability challenges in countries preparing for EU membership, i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. The paper focuses on the period since 2014 and on the banking sectors...
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How far to go – and to remain – in the direction of highly expansionary monetary policy hinges on the balance of marginal benefits and costs of additional monetary easing and its expected evolution over time. This paper sketches a framework for assessing this balance and applies it to four...
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and their volatility on trade flows in two small, open economies – Chile and New Zealand – with three major trading … exchange volatility impacts trade flows in the small, open economies more than was found for larger economies. Findings do not … clearly indicate the direction of the impact, i.e. whether this volatility increases or decreases trade in all countries and …
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Using variance decompositions in vector auto-regressions (VARs) we model a high-dimensional network of European CDS spreads to assess the transmission of credit risk to the non-financial corporate sector. Our findings suggest a sectoral clustering in the CDS network, where financial institutions...
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spillovers from macroprudential policy. Moreover, I find that the overall effect from more macroprudential regulation is highly …
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, with potential global spillovers, as was already experienced in mid-2013 when the mere discussion of tapering unsettled … bond yield shock would not have large trade spillovers in the absence of crisis events in the United States or abroad, an … spillovers given their generally less liquid financial markets and, in some cases, weak fundamentals related to the banking …
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This paper studies the role of international investment funds in the transmission of global financial conditions to the euro area using structural Bayesian vector auto regressions. While cross-border banking sector capital ows receded significantly in the aftermath of the global financial...
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This paper analyses the integration of China and India into the global economy. To this end, it presents estimates from a gravity model to gauge the overall degree of their trade intensity and the depth of their bilateral trade linkages, as well as selected measures of revealed comparative...
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