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interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall …
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Interest rate derivatives on major currencies, with notional outstanding amounts adding up to hundreds of trillions, are mostly indexed on Libor and Euribor benchmarks, as are hundreds of billions in loans to enterprises, mortgages and other retail loans to the real economy. Yet, the prevailing...
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under rational expectations. We also find that risk measures, in the form of conditional interest rate volatility, are …
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Interest rate caps, despite their intended objective of broadening financial inclusion, can have undesirable effects on financial inclusion under certain conditions. This paper examines the effect of microfinance-loan interest rate caps on financial inclusion in Cambodia. Based on a...
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interest rates. While bond yields are not fully efficient?reflecting regulation, liquidity, and segmentation?we find they …: changes in PBC rates influence the structure of Treasury, financial, and corporate bond yield curves, which are then …
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, which is more pronounced for higher maturities and when risk aversion proxied by bond market volatility is high. Going …
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We analyze the long-run impact of emerging-market sovereign bond yields on corporate bond yields, finding that the …
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This paper examines equilibrium price relationships and price discovery between credit defaul swap (CDS), bond, and … equity markets for emerging market sovereign issuers. Findings suggest that CDS and bond spreads converge despite various … bond and CDS markets and the equity markets. As for price discovery, our results are mixed. This stands in contrast to the …
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Using panel quantile regressions for 11 advanced and 10 emerging market economies, we show that the conditional distribution of GDP growth depends on financial conditions, with growth-at-risk (GaR)-defined as growth at the lower 5th percentile-more responsive than the median or upper...
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