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This paper assesses the potential influence of the growing CDS market on the borrowing cost of sovereign states during the European sovereign crisis. We analyze the sovereign debt market to ascertain the pattern of information transmission between the CDS and corresponding bond markets. Our...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between credit and business cycles within a nonlinear framework. To this end, we rely on the estimation of smooth transition regression models for a sample of 17 OECD countries over the 1986-2010 period. Our findings show that credit...
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This paper investigates the main determinants of pension funds investment in private equity funds, and particularly in venture capital and leverage buyouts in the US and Canada over the 1996-2011 period. Our results, based on a Tobit model, show some important differences between pension funds...
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This paper investigates whether trade and financial openness has weakened the inflation-output trade-off and caused a shift in the preferences of monetary authorities. Based on the backward-looking Phillips curve and a Taylor-type interest rate rule, our results for France, the UK and the USA...
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