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Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … wedges are fixed at their pre-globalization levels. We find that unbalanced financial globalization led to a worsening of …

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What do we know about the global financial safety net? : a new comprehensive data set

Scheubel, Beatrice; Stracca, Livio - 2016

This paper critically reviews the theoretical basis for the provision of the global financial safety net (GFSN) and provide a comprehensive database covering four elements of the GFSN (foreign exchange reserves, IMF financing, central bank swap lines and regional financing arrangements) for over...

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Exorbitant privilege : a safe-asset view

Jiang, Zhengyang - 2024

I propose a model of the reserve currency paradigm that centers on liquidity demand for safe assets. In global recessions, the demand for U.S. safe assets increases and raises their convenience yields, giving rise to stronger dollar and countercyclical seigniorage revenues. The seigniorage...

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International portfolio flows and exchange rate volatility for emerging markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ali, Faek Menla; Spagnolo, Fabio - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio in.ows on exchange rate volatility, using monthly bilateral data for the US vis-a-vis eight Asian developing and emerging countries (India, Indonesia, South Korea, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, and Taiwan) over...

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Cyclicality of international reserves, exchange rate flexibility, and output volatility

Fujii, Eiji; Qian, Xingwang - 2025

This paper investigates the cyclicality of international reserves and their role in macroeconomic stabilization. We challenge two widely held assumptions: (1) central banks typically manage IR counter-cyclically—accumulating reserves during booms and drawing them down during downturns; and (2)...

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China's exchange rate and financial repression : the conflicted emergence of the renminbi as an international currency

McKinnon, Ronald I.; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014

China has been provoked into speeding renminbi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial markets in RMB, the Chinese authorities are essentially trapped into maintaining exchange controls-reinforced by financial repression in domestic interest rates→to avoid an...

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Central bank swap lines

Bahaj, Saleem; Reis, Ricardo - 2018 - First draft: October 2017

Swap lines between advanced-economy central banks are a new important part of the global financial architecture. This paper analyses their monetary policy effects from three perspectives. First, from the perspective of the central banks, it shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit...

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Exchange rate regime, financial market bubbles and long-term growth in China : lessons from Japan

Schnabl, Gunther - 2016

The paper argues that persistent current account surpluses and increasing foreign currency-denominated asset positions constitute long-term appreciation expectations on yuan and yen, which have made China and Japan vulnerable to U.S. interest rate cuts and appreciation expectation shocks. For...

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Barriers to global capital allocation

Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021

benchmark calibration, we estimate that the capital misallocation induced by these barriers reduces World GDP by 7%, compared to …-country inequality: the standard deviation of log capital per employee is 80% higher than it would be in a world without barriers to …

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Monetary policy surprises and exchange rate behavior

Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kara, Ali Hakan; Kısacıkoğlu, … - 2020

Central banks unexpectedly tightening policy rates often observe the exchange value of their currency depreciate, rather than appreciate as predicted by standard models. We document this for Fed and ECB policy days using eventstudies and ask whether an information effect, where the public...

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