alter the perception of market risk and hit financial intermediation — ‘financial factors’ in short — are prime determinants … intermediation turns an otherwise diversifiable source of idiosyncratic economic uncertainty, the ‘risk shock’, into a systemic force …

How does global risk impact the world economy? In taking up this question, we focus on the dollar’s role in the … global risk shocks in a Bayesian Proxy VAR model. They cause a synchronized contraction of global economic activity and … illustrate through counterfactuals that the dollar appreciation amplifies the adverse impact of global risk shocks outside of the …

finds that common shocks – key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk – have exerted a large effect …, country risk and the strength of domestic macroeconomic fundamentals. Comparing and quantifying these effects shows that …