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In this paper, we conduct an analysis of the implications of capital controls for financial stability. We study a financial transaction (Tobin) tax applicable to cross-border capital flows in a multi-good, multi-country dynamic equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets and...
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This paper focuses on the role of real exchange rate volatility as a driver of portfolio home bias, and in particular as an explanation for differences in home bias across financial assets. We present a Markowitz-type portfolio selection model in which real exchange rate volatility induces a...
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We study the transmission of liquidity shocks in a dynamic general equilibrium model where firms and households are … subject to liquidity risk. The provision of liquidity services is undertaken by financial intermediaries that allocate the … stock of liquid asset between the different sectors of the economy. We find that the macroeconomic effects of liquidity …
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I study rollover risk in the wholesale funding market when intermediaries can hold liquidity ex-ante and are subject to … fire sales ex-post. I demonstrate that precautionary liquidity restores multiple equilibria in a global rollover game. An … intermediate liquidity level supports both the usual run equilibrium and an efficient equilibrium. I provide a uniqueness …
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used to relax financial constraints. We show that firms that face idiosyncratic liquidity shocks are more likely to default … on trade credit, especially when the shocks are unexpected, firms have little liquidity, are likely to be credit … liquidity shocks they face on to their suppliers down the trade credit chain. The evidence is consistent with the idea that …
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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 …
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The empirical analysis of the paper suggests that an FX policy objective and concerns about an overheating of the domestic economy have been the two main motives for the (re-)introduction and persistence of capital controls over the past decade. Capital controls are strongly associated with...
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In this paper, we study the effects of structural shocks that influence global risk – the main factor behind a “global capital flows cycle” – and how risk, in turn, is transmitted to capital flows. Our results show that not all the risk shocks driving the global financial cycle have the...
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This paper analyses the incidence and severity of sudden stops in euro area countries before and after the introduction of the ECB’s asset purchase programmes. We define sudden stops as abrupt declines in private net financial inflows, i.e. total flows adjusted for EU and IMF loans and changes...
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Both academic researchers and policymakers posit a unique role for the US in the inter-national financial system. This paper investigates the characteristics and determinants of US cross-border financial flows and examines how these contrast with those of the rest of the world. We analyse the...
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