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When a sovereign faces the risk of debt default, it may be tempted to expropriate the private sector. This may be one reason for why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood of a transfer from the sovereign risk to corporate...
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This Paper studies equilibrium asset pricing with liquidity risk (the risk arising from unpredictable changes in … liquidity over time). It is shown that the required return on a security depends on its expected illiquidity, the covariances of … its own return, illiquidity with market return, and market illiquidity. This gives rise to a liquidity-adjusted capital …
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This paper analyzes the impact of strained government finances on macroeconomic stability and the transmission of fiscal policy. Using a variant of the model by Curdia and Woodford (2009), we study a 'sovereign risk channel' through which sovereign default risk raises funding costs in the...
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for 72 portfolios of international equities, corporate bonds, and currencies over the 1994 to 2013 period. The forecasting … liquidity provision by hedge funds to noise traders to rationalize our findings, and empirically verify auxiliary predictions of …
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finds that common shocks--key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk--have exerted a large effect on …
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uncertainty, as well as a proxy for liquidity premia can explain a large amount of the variation in these risk premia. …
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' exposure to systemic liquidity crises (during which debt refinancing becomes specially expensive). Importantly, the terms of … efficiency or improving welfare by means of limits to debt maturity, Pigovian taxes, and liquidity insurance schemes. …
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-sector bonds have become increasingly integrated. Issuers and investors alike have come to regard the euro area bond market as a … public ones, and by the greater liquidity of secondary markets. Bond yields have converged dramatically in the transition to … EMU. The persistence of small and variable yield differentials for sovereign debt under EMU indicates that euro area bonds …
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This Paper empirically investigates two important determinants of international activity through wholly owned operations, joint-ventures and licensing, namely country risk and IPRs protection. Using a comprehensive database on investments in chemical plants during the period 1981-96, we show...
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We find that in a sample of emerging economies business cycles are more volatile than in developed ones, real interest rates are countercyclical and lead the cycle, consumption is more volatile than output and net exports are strongly countercyclical. We present a model of a small open economy,...
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