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risk to be priced more effectively. In contrast to other studies, our results suggest that fundamental factors were more …
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The possible crucial role of international bank lending in the transmission of adverse economic disturbance from advanced economies to emerging economies in the recent global financial crisis has once again placed this type of capital flows into sharper scrutiny both in academic and policy...
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This paper examines the extent to which large swings of sovereign yields in euro area countries during the sovereign debt crisis can be attributed to fundamentals. We focus on the inherent uncertainty in bond yield models, which is often overlooked in the literature. We show that the outcomes...
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Recently, it has often been argued that globalization eases the job of central banks as it helps to tame inflation. This is used to argue that central banks (particularly the ECB, referring to the objectives as laid down in the EU-Treaty) could or should reduce their efforts in the fight against...
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This paper empirically investigates international equity investors' foreign portfolios before and during the financial crisis by estimating a gravity model for 22 source and 42 destination countries. The results show that international stock market diversification provides large gains during the...
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We investigate the relationship between a country's domestic financial development and the (composition of its) net …
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gross (but not net) capital inflows in general increase the risk of a currency crisis, but looking at a disaggregated level …, gross portfolio flows increase the risk of a currency crisis for advanced economies, whereas gross FDI inflows decrease the … risk of a crisis for EMEs. Third, contagion has a very strong impact, consistent with the past literature, especially …
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their ability to predict future economic growth in some countries. Our results support a risk-based explanation for the …
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The end of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a period of sustained economic growth, building on the achievements of the liberalisation reforms sustained over three previous decades. However, recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling...
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In this essay we review the empirical literature about sovereign debt and default. As we survey the work of economists, historians, and political scientists, we also emphasize parallel developments by theorists and recommend steps to improve the correspondence between theory and data.
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