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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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markets world-wide gained importance during the post-crisis "second phase of global liquidity" (Shin, 2013). The analysis …
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This paper examines the investment behavior of different financial institutions in debt securities with a particular focus on their response to price changes. For identification, we use security-level data from the German Microdatabase Securities Holdings Statistics. Our results suggest that...
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contractual links. The first is the market price channel, in which scarce funding liquidity and low market liquidity reinforce … case of illiquidity spirals, firms do not internalise the negative externality of holding low levels of funding liquidity … contagion - namely macroprudential liquidity regulation; restrictions on margins and haircuts; and information disclosure. …
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This paper investigates in a non-linear setting the impact on the real economy of frictions stemming from the financial sector. We develop a medium scale DSGE model with a banking sector where an occasionally binding constraint on banks' capital induces a relevant non-linearity. The model -...
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liquidity buffers. …
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In this paper we have estimated a behavioural equation for R&D investment. We assess the impact of liquidity …
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At the 25th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty, this paper reviews the merits of introducing a safe sovereign asset for the eurozone. The triple euro area crisis showed the costly consequences of ignoring the "safety trilemma". Keeping a national safe sovereign asset (the German bund) as the...
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Using a sample of more than 18,000 Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities,or UCITS, this paper aims to provide a first overview of the use of credit default swaps by EU UCITS funds. We show that UCITS funds only account for a small share of the overall EU credit...
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liquidity considerations, official portfolios reduce their "bias" towards the major reserve currencies. As a result, more …
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