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Measuring and managing exchange rate risk exposure is important for reducing a firm''s vulnerabilities from major … traditional types of exchange rate risk faced by firms, namely transaction, translation and economic risks, presents the VaR … approach as the currently predominant method of measuring a firm''s exchange rate risk exposure, and examines the main …
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We analyze a range of macrofinancial indicators to extract signals about cyclical systemic risk across 107 economies … patterns over the financial cycle. We find that liquidity and solvency risk indicators tend to be counter-cyclical, whereas … mispricing risk ones are procyclical, and they all lead the credit cycle. Our results lend support to high-level accounts that …
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simulations of natural disasters and various insurance options, we find that sovereign decisions on optimal risk transfer involve … balancing trade-offs between growth and debt, based on government risk preferences and country risk exposure. The choice of …
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rate risk in the market (i.e. high volatility). Market impairment or overshoot of exchange rate between two equilibria … could generate high volatility and threaten financial stability due to unhedged exposure to exchange rate risk in the … economy. The rule uses the concept of Value at Risk (VaR) to define FXI triggers. While it provides to the market a hedge …
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portfolio theory without recourse to market imperfections. It also demonstrates that “Value-at-Risk” portfolio management rules … optimal to sell many higher-risk assets when a shock to one asset occurs …
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This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over time. It is concluded that the main reason for the observed high correlations over the recent period is probably government policy
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Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education...
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the constant volatility case. In particular, it can shift CTM probabilities towards lower credit risk categories …
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measurement of reinvested earnings and illustrative examples as to recording, from the Fund’s Balance of Payments Compilation …
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This paper makes a new attack on the old problem of measuring horizontal inequity in the income tax. Local measures of inequality of posttax income among pretax equals are proposed, which reflect alternative value judgments about the nature and magnitude of an inequity. These measures are...
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