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systemic banks. First, a Distance-to-Default type measure relates a bank's default risk to its capital requirements. Second, a …
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always observe all relevant firm information. But all Cocos issued sofar have triggers based on accounting ratios and … the issuing bank and their implications for risk taking and investment incentives. Finally, we use our model to explain … the crash in coco prices after Deutsche Bank's profit warning February 2016. …
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Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that...
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We analyse the impact of interactions between monetary and fiscal policy on macroeconomic stability. We find that in the presence of sovereign default beliefs a monetary policy, which aims to stabilize inflation through an active interest rate policy, will destabilize the economy if the feedback...
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We analyse the poisonous interaction between bank rescues, financial fragility and sovereign debt discounts. In our … sovereign debt discount. We introduce long term government debt, which gives rise to the possibility of capital losses on bank … long term (government) debt. The associated increase in credit tightness leads to a negative amplification effect …
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We study the global macroeconomic effects of tariffs using a multiregional, general equilibrium model, EAGLE, that we extend by introducing US tariffs against Chinese imports into the US, and subsequently Chinese tariffs against US imports into China, consistent with recent trade policies by the...
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We use a classic Merton credit risk framework to argue that Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) face less incentive to …
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