A workhorse two-country portfolio model that embeds net foreign asset (NFA) imbalances rationalizes the following observation: debtor countries have on average a less diversified international portfolio than creditor countries. Abstracting from NFA imbalances, the model would feature a...

We introduce shocks to the availability of US dollar funding for non-US financial intermediaries in a two-country New Keynesian model with financial frictions. Such dollar shortages lead to uncovered interest rate parity deviations and have a significant negative effects on the macroeconomy....

We provide evidence for a causal link between the US economy and the global financial cycle. Using a unique intraday dataset, we show that US macroeconomic news releases have large and significant effects on global risky asset prices. Stock price indexes of 27 countries, the VIX, and commodity...

Focus: the use of high-dimensional data. Advanced analytics techniques, such as the analysis of large and unstructured novel data sources, or the application of techniques derived from machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer new insights into problems in economics and finance. These...

The China International Conference in Finance (CICF) provides an open platform that brings worldwide scholars together to present current research and stimulate new development in finance. CICF presented its first conference in 2002. Over the years, CICF has grown to be one of the leading...

We welcome papers on International Economic topics and Finance. We invite theoretical, conceptual and empirical proposals on all aspects of international trade and finance. We invite topics in trade, global value chains, growth, productivity, innovation, finance migration, cyber security...

Topics: - Global inflation and the natural rate of interest: understanding drivers, persistence, and longer-term outlook; - Global commodity cycle; - Global spillovers from unconventional monetary policies, tapering, and central bank communications; - International monetary policy interaction and...

Each year the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Commission organise a joint high-level conference on European financial integration. This year, in conjunction with the conference, the ECB will publish its biennial report on Financial Integration and Structure in the Euro Area and the...

This paper sheds light on the effectiveness of policies addressing high non-performing loans (NPLs). Using data on ownership of subsidiaries of foreign banks in Emerging Europe, we first show that changes in NPLs of parent banks are associated with changes in NPLs of their foreign affiliates,...